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The Merino Sheep of the López de Tejada Family

Montenegro de Cameros, Pinares, Soria

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The Merino Sheep of the López de Tejada Family

Historical milestone · Montenegro de Cameros, Pinares, Soria

Image of Montenegro de Cameros, not of the place itself.

In the golden age of the Mesta, during the Early Modern period, families from Montenegro de Cameros, the only Cameros enclave in the province of Soria, drove flocks of merino sheep down to Extremadura every autumn; some ended up settling there permanently.

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Photo: LBM1948 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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