These huts are constructed in stone with the building method called “dry stone”, it is a constructive tradition with valuable examples in the Sobrarbe region.
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The type of stone used was especially the limestone, the boulder or the called stone of “saso”, very irregular. They used stones of all sizes and with irregular forms and the work were finished off with a few hammer knocks, using especially its natural forms to assemble it as a puzzle.
This construction method consists on place and fit the stones one on the others so that they form a wall, without any mortar to bind them together, so they remain held up by the interlocking of the stones, thanks to their own weight.
This construction method consists on place and fit the stones one on the others so that they form a wall, without any mortar to bind them together, so they remain held up by the interlocking of the stones, thanks to their own weight.
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The dry stone is an ancestral technique in extinction danger. These constructions have been erected without any mortar: only balancing the dimensions, weight and pressures of the different fragments of stone, from an immense and anonymous handmade work, without using construction guides, without matters transport from distant points; without disturbing any natural resource apart from the stone and the waller own effort.
The dry stone represents an architectural and cultural tradition that has drawn the landscape.
Time ago almost all the agricultural workers, once finished the farm work, use to check his stones bench-covers and his huts. Nowadays, many fields are barren and the function for which the huts were constructed has disappeared.
At present some of the huts have been restored and it is possible to visit them.
The dry stone represents an architectural and cultural tradition that has drawn the landscape.
Time ago almost all the agricultural workers, once finished the farm work, use to check his stones bench-covers and his huts. Nowadays, many fields are barren and the function for which the huts were constructed has disappeared.
At present some of the huts have been restored and it is possible to visit them.
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