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The kaolin of Tamame and the granite of the cathedral

Peñausende, Sayago, Zamora

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The kaolin of Tamame and the granite of the cathedral

Curiosity · Peñausende, Sayago, Zamora

Image of Peñausende, not of the place itself.

At Tamame kaolin is still extracted, the white clay of the municipal district, and from the granite quarries of Peñausende came the stone with which the cathedral of Zamora and several buildings of the provincial capital were raised.

Photo: Roinpa (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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