Fuentes3

By Fuentes3

Old casona

Now unused, but interesting I think. The front section is laid out as a house and that frontage shows a door and windows, clearly used as a residence. The back of the house is without doors or windows and was used for animals or grain storage. The animals would also have provided heating. Multifunctional house/ barn/animal dwelling, then. It stands empty and unused on the property of a family that emigrated to South America and made money; they come back to their main property here every year but not to this house.
The extra shows the lintle above a side-door, and records that the house was built in 1813 "at the expense of" Doña Teresa Gonzalez Villar. It´s noteworthy that in 1813 she, a woman, had sufficient financial identity to have had the house built. But this was two years before Waterloo and Spain had been at war with and had lost to, Napoleon. Perhaps men had died or been imprisoned, perhaps that´s relevant to the financial and legal status of a woman in those years.

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