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The chickpeas of Muriel

Muriel de Zapardiel, Tierra de Medina, Valladolid

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The chickpeas of Muriel

Food and drink · Muriel de Zapardiel, Tierra de Medina, Valladolid

Image of Muriel de Zapardiel, not of the place itself.

In the middle of the nineteenth century Madoz noted an economy of cereals, chickpeas and livestock in a village of a hundred houses. The dry-farmed chickpea is still the characteristic pulse crop of these lands of the Zapardiel.

Photo: Fundación Joaquín Díaz / Cayetano Enríquez (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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