The Ebro Delta cottages: one of the oldest and most unique forms of traditional housing in Catalonia
- Autores: M. Carme Queralt Tomàs
- Localización: Revista d'etnologia de Catalunya, ISSN 1132-6581, Nº. 40, 2015, págs. 8-17
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
They are one of the most ancient and singular housings of Catalonia and Spain.
It is one of the most important elements in the rich cultural heritage of the lower Ebro, a unique cultural inheritance, that is necessary to protect and conserve.
We have notices since the Middle Ages, and it experimented an important increase during the XIXth century and the beginnings of the XXth, which is close related with the agricultural colonization of the Delta by rice fields. They were humble and simple constructions: a wooden structure with walls made of mud mixed with straw and, once it was dry, whitewashed; a vegetal covert of reed tied with twine, with only one gate, because ventilation was performed through the cover. Nowadays it has loosen his original function of agricultural warehouse, stable, tavern or home of lighthouse keeper, shepherd, peasant, fisherman... to became second home, rural gite, information center and restaurant, and it even has his own Interpretation Center
