Espigueiros do Lindoso

Lindoso - Viana do Castelo - Portugal

 

The espigueiro, also called canastro, caniço or hôrreo, is a structure usually made of stone and wood, although there are some entirely of stone, with the function of drying the coarse corn through the lateral fissures, and at the same time preventing the destruction of the corn by rodents through the elevation of the structure. As corn requires harvesting in the fall, it needs to be as airy as possible to dry in a season as bad as winter.

In the territory of Continental Portugal, they are mainly to the North, in particular in the Minho, Beira Litoral, Beira Interior and Oeste de Trás-os-Montes regions.

In Galicia, in Spain, there are similar granaries to those that exist in Portugal. There are also similar structures in the Spanish regions of Navarra, Asturias, Cantabria and in the province of Leon, where they are called hórreo.

There are also very similar constructions in Scandinavia, especially in Norway, where they are called stabbur and in Sweden, called härbre.

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