2024Rural Architecture - Pasiega Cabin - Set CTO

Classical sources put us on the trail of the livestock activity of the brave Cantabrian warriors of yesteryear, whom the Romans feared, a task that we assume also took place in the low and flat lands of what we know today as the three Pasiegas towns. Already in the 11th century, with the donation of these lands and forests by the counts Don Sancho García and Doña Urraca Gómez to the monastery of San Salvador de Oña, the Montes de Pas are mentioned for the first time and the “cabannas” are also referred to. ” in which to house these livestock, whose construction became changing and prolific later during the Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary, perhaps originally as huts and cabins similar to those of the rest of the Cantabrian coast, very fragile and predominantly built of wood in this Pasiego territory and, later, in a rectangular plan with walls reinforced with dry edge and wooden framework on which to support the gabled slate roof, an architectural type that, over the centuries, became a tradition in the Pasiega population.