Indian Houses, Sanlucar de Barrameda, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain
Seen from the coach
This article which I originally posted in reference to the Galicians who emigrated to America applies also to the many Andalusians who sought their fortunes in Latin America!
The "Indian Houses"
From the middle of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th, thousands of Galicias were obliged to leave their homes to start a new life in Hispano-America.
This ceaseless emigration has profoundly marked the contemporary history of Galicia, being the most numerous in all Spain and representing a total of a third of all Spanish emigrants. On occasions this exodus to countries such as Argentina, Cuba,, Mexico,, Brazil, Columbia, or Uruguay was crowned by economic success and enabled them to return to their motherland with a little fortune.
The Galician emigrant, part of an emigration principally masculine fleeing from the economic misery of an impoverished Galicia did not intend to install his family in America, his desire was to acummulate a certain wealth and return home.
Some never returned, either because they settled down overseas, or totally disappeared, others returned poor, but some returned having prospered. They brought back with them, besides economic wealth, new perceptions and ideas that we can see fulfilled in the field of architecture in their legacies.
These emigrants named "Indians" using the wealth they had accumulated tried to emulate in their homes the architecture they had seen in the American cities. They added comforts unknown in this epoch such as running water inside the houses and adapted them tp the climatic conditions of Galicia! The " Indian" architecture is an almost complete unknown these days, but Galician architecture cannot be understood without taking it into account.
In Galicia these buildings are found maily in the eowns of the Mariña of Lugo and the Matiña of La Coruña. Usually this type of dwelling is in the form of a detached house, although ocassionally we can see terraced of semi-detached examples.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanl%C3%BAcar_de_Barrameda#:~:text=...
Indian Houses, Sanlucar de Barrameda, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain
Seen from the coach
This article which I originally posted in reference to the Galicians who emigrated to America applies also to the many Andalusians who sought their fortunes in Latin America!
The "Indian Houses"
From the middle of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th, thousands of Galicias were obliged to leave their homes to start a new life in Hispano-America.
This ceaseless emigration has profoundly marked the contemporary history of Galicia, being the most numerous in all Spain and representing a total of a third of all Spanish emigrants. On occasions this exodus to countries such as Argentina, Cuba,, Mexico,, Brazil, Columbia, or Uruguay was crowned by economic success and enabled them to return to their motherland with a little fortune.
The Galician emigrant, part of an emigration principally masculine fleeing from the economic misery of an impoverished Galicia did not intend to install his family in America, his desire was to acummulate a certain wealth and return home.
Some never returned, either because they settled down overseas, or totally disappeared, others returned poor, but some returned having prospered. They brought back with them, besides economic wealth, new perceptions and ideas that we can see fulfilled in the field of architecture in their legacies.
These emigrants named "Indians" using the wealth they had accumulated tried to emulate in their homes the architecture they had seen in the American cities. They added comforts unknown in this epoch such as running water inside the houses and adapted them tp the climatic conditions of Galicia! The " Indian" architecture is an almost complete unknown these days, but Galician architecture cannot be understood without taking it into account.
In Galicia these buildings are found maily in the eowns of the Mariña of Lugo and the Matiña of La Coruña. Usually this type of dwelling is in the form of a detached house, although ocassionally we can see terraced of semi-detached examples.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanl%C3%BAcar_de_Barrameda#:~:text=...