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Goyeneche Royal Glass Factory

Nuevo Baztán, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

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Goyeneche Royal Glass Factory

Curiosity · Nuevo Baztán, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

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Goyeneche founded the village in 1709 as an industrial colony around a fine glass factory that supplied Spain and the American colonies; the shortage of firewood and European competition ruined it in the mid-18th century.

Photo: Raimundo Pastor (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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