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Wine jars of Colmenar de Oreja

Colmenar de Oreja, Las Vegas, Madrid

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Wine jars of Colmenar de Oreja

Food and drink · Colmenar de Oreja, Las Vegas, Madrid

The town was for centuries the great jar-making centre of Castile: its potters modelled bulging clay vessels of up to five hundred arrobas in which the wine of the comarca fermented and was kept before the arrival of steel.

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