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Originally Posted by Xabia Jim  On a bit of a whim today, I pulled off the road and went exploring to find the castle grounds of Sagunto, north of Valencia. Anyway, this is probably the largest castle grounds (walled city) I've ever been in and at the other end of the castle from the Roman Forum was another area with a wood fired oven!! This thing was huge! I'm guessing it was 4 to 5 meters in diameter. What an interesting find.... |
Over the Christmas holidays I went to visit Geo. Washington's home, Mount Vernon. Very much worth the visit, even if you've seen it before. In the bakehouse next to the mansion is a large open hearth fireplace, and a bake oven next to it. Here's the link to the page on Mt. Vernon's website:
http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/exp...x.cfm/pid/289/
You can see that the flue for the oven angles over to the main flue for the fireplace. On a whim, I wrote an email to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, and asked if they had an inner photograph of the oven. I got a nice note back today from Dawn Bonner, of MVLA photo services, with the attached photo. As you can see, it's a low dome round brick oven, which wouldn't differ much from anything you would see in a pizzaria.
They specify that the photo is for research, not for commercial use or reproduction.