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Spain: Corn House
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Bert Teunissen
 
By Bert Teunissen
Published on 06/20/2007
 
A simple, novel structure in the Spanish countryside.

Corn House
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The little stone house you see is built to keep corn from rats. The ten stone legs all have big flat round stones on top of them and it’s on top of that the house is built. This way, the rats cannot come past the round flat stones and thus not into the corn house. The buildings are very old and typical for this area in the north of Spain.

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