Buildings of vernacular character

These two houses offer a fine example of the traditional vernacular rural architecture of the comarca.

The organisation of the house's spaces is closely linked to agricultural tasks, since the family, the house and work form an indissoluble whole. The dwelling is not only the family's place of shelter, but also the space for storage and for carrying out activities related to agricultural produce intended for sale or self-sufficiency, as the family produced a large part of what it consumed.

The house of a small-landowning farming family typically had: in the basement, the "bodega"; on the ground floor, an entrance for storing tools, a larder for preserves and, at the back, the mule's stable, the pigpen and a loft for hay; on the first floor, used as living quarters, the sitting room, the hearth, the sink, the kneading trough and the bedrooms; and on the second floor, "lo perxi" (an open space for drying fruit), the hen house… The furniture and household utensils were entirely functional, with few decorative objects.

For construction, materials available locally in the area were used: wood, stone, roof tiles, clay bricks, lime, plaster…

With the arrival of the tractor and the mechanisation of agriculture, houses required more space and many farmers built new homes on plots on the outskirts of the village. Social change also meant that the spaces destina