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Granite quarries of Alpedrete

Alpedrete, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

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Granite quarries of Alpedrete

Curiosity · Alpedrete, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

The place name itself alludes to stone, and in the 1960s more than eighty quarries were working in the municipal district; granite from here went into the monastery of El Escorial, the Royal Palace and the Nuevos Ministerios.

Photo: Jesus Gaban (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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