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Traditional Apiary

Name: Traditional Apiary
Rating: 1.9

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Location: La Hiruela, Lozoya Somosierra, Madrid, Spain

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Juanjo Alonso Kapi

February 8, 2023

On the way is the traditional apiary of the population surrounded by a stone wall to prevent the entry of animals. The use of clay, wood, quartzite, slate and other materials from the terrain produces a mimetic architecture, fully integrated into the environment to the point of going unnoticed because it is part of the rural landscape. The most characteristic auxiliary constructions of black architecture are the sheds, the farrowing pens and the fences, in most cases they serve to control the cattle and defend the mowing pastures, the apiaries and the fruit crops, but they also serve to delimit the traditional paths and the old roads that the inhabitants of the towns of the mountain valleys have used for centuries to communicate. The herrenes or fenced plots between the oak meadows are built using walls of rough slate blocks, alternating with large slate slabs or raft boats, finishing off the fence with other horizontal slabs or covering boats, giving the construction a primitive and megalithic appearance. . The hives are made of hollow oak trunks, covered with slate slabs and sealed with tin sheets and adobe. On the way to the town you can also see the reproduction of a traditional coal cellar, a reminder of the old lifestyles and trades of other times. On one side of the building there is an interpretive panel of the charcoal burner's trade.

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