Combarro: A Village Built Out of Granaries
Galicia, Spain
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Combarro: A Village Built Out of Granaries
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Combarro on the Ría de Pontevedra is protected both as a Historic Ensemble and as a Historic Site, and what it is protected for is a concentration of hórreos and stone crosses unlike anywhere else. The hórreo is a granary raised on legs with flat stone caps to stop rats climbing in and slatted sides to let Atlantic wind dry the maize — a piece of ordinary engineering that Galicia solved once and never needed to change. In Combarro they stand in a line along the waterfront with their backs to the sea.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Walk the waterfront and count the hórreos standing in a row above the water
2
of 5
Work out how one actually works — raised on legs, capped to stop rats, slatted to let the wind through and dry the grain
3
of 5
Find the cruceiros, the stone crosses the village is equally protected for
4
of 5
Walk the old lanes behind the front, where the houses are built against and into the bare granite
5
of 5
Look out across the Ría de Pontevedra at the rafts moored in it, and work out what is being farmed underneath them
Walk the waterfront and count the hórreos standing in a row above the water
Work out how one actually works — raised on legs, capped to stop rats, slatted to let the wind through and dry the grain
Find the cruceiros, the stone crosses the village is equally protected for
Walk the old lanes behind the front, where the houses are built against and into the bare granite
Look out across the Ría de Pontevedra at the rafts moored in it, and work out what is being farmed underneath them
Before you go
The old village lanes are narrow, cobbled and closed to vehicles — park outside and walk in.
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Challenge XP
250 XP
Spain country bonus
+100 XP
Potential total
350 XP
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