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1.6.73 Real Estate Taxpayers, 1931 ... 143–44 In France, a tithe-payer strike spread from 1529 to 1560 ... Spain, residents rioted at the sale of a tax resister's ...
Increasing sweet chestnut pollen appearances in Switzerland, France, Germany and the Iberian peninsula in the first century A.D. suggests the spreading of cultivated sweet chestnut trees by the Romans. [22] [23] Contrary to that notion, other scientists found no indication of the Romans spreading C. sativa before the fifth century. [24]
La Garganta (Spanish for "the throat", or "gully") is a private estate, or finca, of around 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) in extent, located in the rugged Sierra Morena, in rural Ciudad Real Province, in the region of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
A chestnut orchard is an open stand of grafted chestnut (selva castanile) trees for fruit production. In this agroforestry system, trees are usually intercropped with cereals, hay or pasture. [ 1 ] These orchards are traditional systems in Canton of Ticino ( Switzerland ) and Northern Italy , where they are called “selva castanile”.
In 2008, the real estate market started to drop fast, and house prices decreased dramatically by 8% in that year. [20] In the period for 2007-2013, Spanish house prices fell by 37%. [21] Each year almost a million homes were built in Spain, more than in Germany, France, and England combined. [22]
The chestnut cultivar Colossal originates from the USA - California Central Valley. It is a Castanea sativa × Castanea crenata hybrid that is cold hardy to −20 °F (−29 °C). The tree can be grown in Zones 4-8, blooms early, and is pollen sterile. Colossal is chestnut blight, root rot and kernel rot susceptible. [1]
A mega-mansion built on the former estate of Walt Disney has hit the market for a mind-numbing $90 million. The Carolwood Estate, built in 2001 and owned by investor Gabriel Brener, is located in ...
The same process was used in 1980 by José Posada in Ourense, Spain. He was the first businessman to build a factory to produce Spanish marron glacé using Galician raw chestnuts , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] which previously were exported to France to produce the confectionery.