Munera - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:11:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Munera - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Oven kitchenette with chimney. Munera (Albacete) https://historylab.es/oven-kitchenette-with-chimney-munera-albacete/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oven-kitchenette-with-chimney-munera-albacete Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cocinilla-de-horno-con-chimenea-munera-albacete/ Popular architecture. Photograph of a masonry oven kitchen attached to the house, in Lechina, near Munera (Albacete)

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]]> During the Modern Age it was common for dwellings to grow according to the needs and economic possibilities of the inhabitants of the house. On occasions, the basic structure of the home was too small to introduce divisions, so these were built in areas attached to it. The photograph that serves as an example is of an oven kitchenette, located in Lechina, near the municipality of Munera (Albacete). This kitchen has walls of stone and mud masonry with a gabled roof with Arabic tiles. A plain wooden door was chosen for the entrance. There are no other openings, such as windows, except for the oven chimney.

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]]> House with tiled roof in eastern La Mancha in 1761 https://historylab.es/house-with-tiled-roof-in-eastern-la-mancha-in-1761/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=house-with-tiled-roof-in-eastern-la-mancha-in-1761 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/casa-a-tejavana-de-la-mancha-oriental-en-1761/ Popular architecture. Reconstruction of Josefa Soriano's house, built with a tiled roof (without heights).

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]]> The form, structure and materials of dwellings in inland Spain in the mid-18th century were conditioned by the quality that their tenants could afford. Of the various architectural typologies, the tejavana house was the simplest, what did it consist of? It was a single-storey dwelling without a chamber, covered with a single tile or some other impermeable material. Within its interior structure it could have numerous rooms. Such was the case of Josefa Soriano, widow of Joaquín de Motos from the town of Munera (Albacete). This house had several outbuildings and a corral where she kept animals for her subsistence. The increase in the standard of living meant that the materials used were better, with masonry walls embedded in the earth. The roof could be tiled or covered with vegetation to allow rainwater to run off, while the interior structure did not use brick, but rather wooden partitions with reed interwoven with a layer of plaster on both sides. Wood was also used for the roof frame, varying between pine, poplar and juniper.

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