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Next to the town of Pla de Santa Maria, in the Alt Camp region, there is a marked route, known as La Capona, which runs through 11 extremely interesting and well-restored examples of dry stone huts, a pleasant surprise of popular architecture.
In this report in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can contemplate some of these constructions that, as detailed by the City Council, are “buildings that defy the passage of time.”
“They are the testimony of a bygone era, the stone as the only material to separate farms, to trace paths, to provide shelter, to take advantage of the water, to do the most with the minimum”, describes the consistory in the presentation of this route.
Along a little more than a kilometer and a half, on a flat road, we find this series of huts. The itinerary can be done both on foot and by bicycle. One section coincides with the GR-175 of the Cistercian Route and with the local path A walk through the term, walking along the royal roads.
The Ruta de la Capona, which was launched in 2002, has already received hundreds of visitors. She was awarded the Premio a la Salvaguarda del Patrimonio Cultural of the Institut d’Estudis Vallencs (2002).
In 2018, the art of building dry stone walls and huts, its knowledge and techniques, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
