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Madrid's market garden

Villa del Prado, Sierra Oeste, Madrid

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Madrid's market garden

Food and drink · Villa del Prado, Sierra Oeste, Madrid

The meadow of the Alberche made the municipality the capital's main supplier of vegetables, with almost half of the district given over to cultivation. Its vegetables and fruit were being exported to Madrid as early as the nineteenth century.

Photo: LBM1948 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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