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Unfired botijos drying outside a potter's workshop at Agost, with the Maigmó hills behind
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Agost

A small town at the foot of the Maigmó that has made pottery for seven centuries, and above all the botijo, the porous unglazed jar that keeps water cool by evaporation.

Seven centuries of clay

A town built on porous white clay

Potters are recorded at Agost from 1277 and the trade has never stopped. The reason is the local white, lime-rich clay, which fires pale and stays slightly porous, exactly the quality wanted in a water jar.

The botijo cools its contents by letting a little water evaporate through the wall. The Museu de Cantereria, founded in 1981, holds several thousand pieces and shows how the whole town worked.

Fast facts

INE padrón, 1 Jan 2025

Population
5,225
Change since 2015
+11%

4,707 in 2015

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