Sunday, June 23, 2013

Aracena

















It's always nice to take a break from the cities and head out to the pueblos.  Today we went to Huelva's Aracena, home of one of Spain's best denominations of ham- Jabugo.  We started with a typical Andalusian breakfast, toast with tomato, ham and olive oil.  We then headed to a deep cavern called Gruta de las maravillas.  Then to a museum dedicated to the whole hame process, from raising the special breed of iberian pig, to feeding them from the acorn producing fields, to the killing and preserving.  We then climbed the towns pretty and narrow streets to the castle which was Moorish, then Portuguese, then Spanish.

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