Piletas de Garum - Málaga, Spain
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This roman Piletas de Garum (Garum Basins) can be found in the Calle Alcazabilla.
Waymark Code: WMPP5M
Location: Andalucía, Spain
Date Posted: 09/30/2015
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This roman Piletas de Garum (Garum Basins) can be found in the Calle Alcazabilla.
The Piletas are located under the Alcazabilla street that is suspended on stilts to protect the Piletas and there is a glass pyramid that allows people to admire them.
In the glass of the pyramid can be read in Spanish and English:
"Piletas romanas pertenecientes a una factoría de salazones de la segunda mitad del siglo IV después de Cristo. En su interior se fabicaba garum.
Roman basins belonging to a salted fish factory from the second half of the 4th century A.D.. The basins were used to make the fish sauce called garum."The wikipédia tell us about garum: (
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"Garum was a fermented fish sauce used as a condiment in the cuisines of ancient Greece, Rome, and Byzantium. Liquamen was a similar preparation, and at times the two were synonymous. Although it enjoyed its greatest popularity in the Roman world, the sauce was earlier used by the Greeks. The Romans thought the Latin word garum derived from the Greek garos, a fish from which it was supposed to have been originally made, but this fish-name is unattested in classical Greek. It is believed to have resembled the fermented anchovy sauce colatura di alici still produced today in Campania, Italy."