Real close by La Bañeza is Jimenez, an upland village of a thousand neighbors, watered by the river Jamuz that gives its name. It is flanked at its gates by oak forest and at its ends by a mountain pine green. These flats were trod by Astures, Romans, Visigoths and Mozarabic.
         
         
Of the latter inherited the art of clay. Up to thirty furnaces were lit some days, in the hundred workshops open in the nineteenth century. Antonio Gaudí himself asked to his potter master for decorating the Episcopal Palace of Astorga.  
         
         
The Romans bequeathed their art of wine. Over three hundred "caves" still survive today there, in tight rows, in the banks of the river, were locals enjoy themselves.
         
         
"El Capricho" tells its history and describes its landscape in the table, in the clay the dishes are made, in the wines and the oak wood that stokes the fire and give the done to a turn to your grill.