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A Casa Pagesa is made resources of each family. They are built around the porxo, the main room dedicated to everyday activities, from which you can access the kitchen and bedrooms.
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They are built essentially with materials found on site, such as dry stone, Sabina roof beams, sand, clay and marine plants. Their interiors are austere and functional, with scant furniture and no decorative elements, with the exception of the arches and wooden balustrades on the facades.
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The houses were built on farmland to ensure the greatest self-sufficiency possible. This is why elements such as wells, an oven and a cistern were essential, the latter used to collect rainwater from the flat roofs, which were built using Sabina-wood beams and with layers of Posidonia, charcoal soil and clay.
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The porxet, the porch or a simple frame, protects the front door and gives access to the porxo. If the owners were wealthy, they would build the top floor with the porxet de dalt, a gallery decorated with three arches where fruit and vegetables were also dried.
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The predominant orientation of these constructions is with the main façade facing south to make the most of the hours of sunshine, to facilitate ventilation of the house, and to avoid the colder winds that come from the north.
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Most of the houses were located on the southern slope of the mountains, which allowed them to be defended against Turkish and Berber attacks (from the 15th to the 18th century), giving the farmers a wider view of their land. In some cases, they even had a defensive tower.
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The small windows, known as ventanucos, were narrower outside than inside, and emulated a fortress thanks to thick walls almost one meter wide. These served to insulate the interior from the outside temperatures and maintain the temperature of the house according to the season.
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To produce agricultural products, auxiliary buildings were created such as the trull (the oil mill), the casa del vi (the winery), the mill house, the safareig (the water tank), the well and the cistern. And depending on the possibilities of each family, they could have animal pens. They are a symbol of Ibizan identity, reflecting centuries of popular tradition.
