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Brandy trade and the Reus quotation

Reus, Baix Camp, Tarragona

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Brandy trade and the Reus quotation

Historical milestone · Reus, Baix Camp, Tarragona

Image of Reus, not of the place itself.

The monopoly of the brandy trade turned the city into the second market of Catalonia in the eighteenth century. Its price was fixed here and from that comes the saying Reus, Paris, London, with which the reach of those dealings was summed up.

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Photo: Misburg3014 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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