Sierra Nevada
Seventy-Two Snow Stalls
Portrait
For four centuries Granada was cooled from this mountain by a taxed and licensed trade: a judge of the snow revenue appointed in 1682, forty-two snow-sale stalls in the city in 1762 and seventy-two by 1813, the loads carried down by donkey until industrial ice took the business in the 1890s. Mulhacén stands at 3,479 metres, the highest in mainland Spain, and the thin dry air holds an observatory at 2,896.
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