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Extract from the Sant Sadurn d'Anoia Travel Guides:
Half an hour from Barcelona, built on land watered by the River Noya,
SANT SADURN D'ANOIA
has been an important centre of wine production since the eighteenth century. When, at the end of the nineteenth century, French vineyards suffered heavily from disease, Sant Sadurn prospered, though later it too succumbed to the same wasting disease - something remembered still in the annual September festival by the parade of a representation of the feared Philoxera parasite. The production of
cava
, for which the town is now famous, began only in the 1870s, an industry that went hand in hand with the Catalan cork business, carr...
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