Stone Granaries in the Iberian Peninsula
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Stone Granaries in the Iberian Peninsula is awarded 2009 International Stone Architecture Award in the kind of Vernacular Architecture Prize.
 Galician horreos and Portuguese espiguerios are stone versions of a very common European type of granary, perhaps the result of a gradual “petrifying” process of an original wood model. They represent one of the most original and extraordinary episodes of vernacular architecture on the Iberian peninsula.  The most refined solutions remind us of ancient sarcophagi, raised above ground on a structure of mushroom-shaped pillars to protect grain from rodents. In some cases, these buildings seem to approach classic stylistic and formal architecture. In other cases, they refer back to a remote origin, to an archaic matrix represented by certain prehistoric ash urns found in northern Europe.  |
