Calle Calderería Nueva
Narrow lane of former coppersmith workshops, now lined with Moroccan tea houses and craft shops.
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This guide to Calle Calderería Nueva in Granada's Albaicín traces the street named for its coppersmiths, who since around 1492 hammered flat copper sheets into cauldrons and pots without a single seam, working by ear as much as by hand. It follows the guild workshops that supplied every kitchen in the neighborhood, and the Morisco craftsmen who kept the trade alive under Christian rule. Listen for the low, deep-set shopfronts that still hold the outline of the workshops behind them.
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