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The Carballeda-style octopus

Rionegro del Puente, La Carballeda, Zamora

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The Carballeda-style octopus

Food and drink · Rionegro del Puente, La Carballeda, Zamora

Image of Rionegro del Puente, not of the place itself.

Boiled in a copper cauldron in the Galician manner, octopus became the greatest dish of the comarca's pilgrimage festivals despite Rionegro being hundreds of kilometres from the sea; it is missing from no stall at the September festival.

Photo: Jassschii (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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