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Chestnut drying houses

A Teixeira, Terra de Caldelas, Ourense

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Chestnut drying houses

Food and drink · A Teixeira, Terra de Caldelas, Ourense

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The hamlets preserve sequeiros, small stone buildings where the chestnut was dried over a slow fire for weeks so that it could be kept all winter and afterwards milled as flour.

Photo: caserio.da.castineira (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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