This attractive museum lets you walk over and around the archaeological excavations of a Roman salting factory, where they produced the fish sauce garum. The process is explained (English translations available): the sauce, made right along the southern Spanish coast, was famous across the empire.
Factoría Romana de Salazones
Murcia Province
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