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El Arco Artesanía

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This original shop in the southwestern corner of Plaza Mayor sells an outstanding array of homemade designer souvenirs, from stone, ceramic and glass work to jewellery and home fittings. The papier-mâché figures are gorgeous, but there’s so much else here to turn your head. It sometimes closes earlier in the depths of winter.


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