Les Garrigues is a region with an abundant heritage, that is especially visible in the old local architecture of dry stone buildings. One such striking example and its most emblematic construction, is the hut with a vaulted roof. In an inventory prepared by Josep Preixens, more than a thousand huts with nine different roof styles have been catalogued. People lived in these huts during the time of picking olives, plowing and pruning. This route includes the terrains of Borges Blanques, Castelldans, L'Albi and Vinaixa. There are nine huts, a reservoir, a pond and a cistern. When it comes to roof styles, five huts have the barrel vault, the predominant roof construction (82%) in the region. Other types of roofs we will find are: pointed vault, false dome, roof of slabs and roof of joists and slabs.
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