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of cultivating sugar cane and techniques to extract the sugar from Sicily with the aid of Sicilian masters. A certain Galceran of Vic, lord of Xeresa built the first trapiche in Gandia. By 1433, there were already four and at the end of the century there were fourteen trapiches. A member of the Monastery of Valldigna saw the revenue of his trapiche grow 40% between 1434 and 1502. Attempts to introduce the new

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