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Melide-style fairground octopus

Melide, Terra de Melide, A Coruña

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Melide-style fairground octopus

Curiosity · Melide, Terra de Melide, A Coruña

Image of Melide, not of the place itself.

The town's fame for octopus was born of its cattle fairs, held at the geographical centre of Galicia, where the carters sold dried octopus brought from the coast; today it is sustained by the pilgrims of the Camino Francés and the Camino Primitivo.

Photo: Simon Burchell (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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