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Plentiful formerly, they remain still very present in the provinces of Asturies, in Galice and in the North of Portugal, and rarer or more scattered in the other small regions. They are there granaries that the inhabitants farmers raised to shelter, to dry and to preserve their harvests in this climate rather wet of the Atlantic coast. Raised on their feet taking away them from the ground and protecting them from rodents, exposed to the sun and to the wind, these buildings which one names Hórreos in Spain and Espigueiros in Portugal were an essential element of the rural life. However if this function is always filled, with cultural, or historic conditions or different geophysics according to regions, forms, materials or techniques of construction vary, one can observe this variety of architectonic models. And who vary still with the creativity of the builder. The abundance of hórreos in Galice or in Asturies, this always lively memory, makes an important constituent of it in the culture of these peoples. One always builds hórreos in agricultural purposes, even though necessity is different today. . The symbolism very hardly connected to this granaries is adopted as element of identification, and, life-size or reduced model, as attractive or ornamental construction.. |
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