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The golden stone quarries

Villamayor, La Armuña, Salamanca

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The golden stone quarries

Nature · Villamayor, La Armuña, Salamanca

Image of Villamayor, not of the place itself.

From these quarries, documented since the sixteenth century, comes the sandstone known as Villamayor stone: soft when extracted and golden on contact with the air. With it were built the cathedrals, the Casa de las Conchas and the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca.

Photo: Malopez 21 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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