Cabaña pasiega
The cabaña pasiega is a type of mixed popular architecture (housing-livestock building called a
Typology
Usually it is a warehouse buildings, divided into two levels, with support in the perimeter walls and in one or two pillars of the watershed of the roof. Are built on good-sized
Character
These cabins were always linked to a livestock farm, and to the Pasiego system of transterminance called mudas between low areas and urbanizadas in the valleys, and high grasslands.[3] In the warm season, the cattle were taken to these high fresh meadows, called branizas, for the summer, the family moved to the cabin during that period. By autumn, returning to the lowlands. Very rarely, the cabins were occupied throughout the year, in which case it could be the coexistence of two or more buildings in a single payment, and in recent times (19th and early 20th centuries), only were moved the younger members of the families.[4]
This character connected to a
References
- ^ Ruiz de la Riva, E: House and village in Cantabria: A study of architecture in the valleys of Saja-Nansa, Santander, 1991, pags. 248 to 257
- ^ García Alonso, Manuel & Bohigas Roldán, Ramón: The Soba valley: Archaeology and ethnography, Edt. Tres, Santander, 1995
- ^ The number of cabañas pasiegas associated with the same family farm used to vary and depend on the number of mudas that carried out a year.
- ^ García Alonso & Bohigas Roldán: op. cit., pag.60
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