Essential Magazine November 2021

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PITTACUM

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Arganza is a small, sleepy Leonese village of perhaps 300 souls, founded a couple of hundred years before the Romans arrived to embark on an epic gold-mining programme in nearby Las Médulas: the largest open-pit mine in their entire empire (and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site). WORDS JOHN CARLOS READ PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF PITTACUM

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