Balazote - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Balazote - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Plan of a cave-house in Balazote (Albacete) in the middle of the 18th century https://historylab.es/plan-of-a-cave-house-in-balazote-albacete-in-the-middle-of-the-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plan-of-a-cave-house-in-balazote-albacete-in-the-middle-of-the-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/plano-de-una-casa-cueva-de-balazote-albacete-a-mediados-del-siglo-xviii/ Popular architecture. Plan of the cave-house with several rooms, by José Antonio López, in the village of Balazote (Albacete).

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]]> Within the varied architecture of the dwelling, in the rural world we find cave-houses: dwellings excavated in the rock which could be simple, with a kitchen and a room, or more complex, with a greater number of rooms and even fireplaces. Among the latter we find the cave-house of José Antonio López, a resident of Balazote (Albacete). This house had several rooms that were enlarged according to the needs of the household. The façade, where small windows were located, was reinforced with buttresses, while the rest of the house could be varnished with insulating and waterproof materials. The kitchen had a large chimney to ventilate the entire architectural framework.

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]]> Size and composition of the household in the state of Jorquera (Albacete) according to its structure. 1753 https://historylab.es/size-and-composition-of-the-household-in-the-state-of-jorquera-albacete-according-to-its-structure-1753/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=size-and-composition-of-the-household-in-the-state-of-jorquera-albacete-according-to-its-structure-1753 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tamano-y-composicion-del-hogar-en-el-estado-de-jorquera-albacete-segun-su-estructura-1753/ Analysis of the size and composition of the household according to its family model, the number of children, relatives and servants

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]]> The towns of Jorquera and Casas Ibáñez are located in La Manchuela albacetense. The former, on the banks of the Júcar, had its economic configuration around irrigated farming, while the latter focused on dry farming, mainly with the cultivation of cereals and saffron. In the mid 18th century, according to data from the Ensenada Cadastre, the heads of the family households were married (72.75% on average of the two towns). This meant that the rest were households headed by bachelors (9.35%) and widowers (17.79%) of both sexes. This resource analyses the composition of these households, which had an average size of 3.76 persons per residential unit in Jorquera, and 3.49 in Casas Ibáñez (excluding servants). These figures are slightly below the demographic context of neighbouring towns: Abengibre with 4.03; Alatoz with 4.09; and Alcalá del Júcar with 4.55. By household typology, the largest size is represented by 4+5 households (extended households and multiple households), followed by nuclear households (type 3), households without structure (2) and solitary households (1). The defining characteristics of the household types themselves set the trends in size, but not in their total number. The primacy of the nuclear household was total and in stark contrast to the solitary, extended and multiple households.

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