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Las cuevas de Valtierra

Valtierra, Ribera, Navarra

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Las cuevas de Valtierra

Monument · Valtierra, Ribera, Navarra

Image of Valtierra, not of the place itself.

A district of dwellings excavated into the rock that reached its greatest use in the 19th century, when poverty and precarious farm work led many day-laborer families to dig their own homes into the hillside. They were gradually abandoned from the early 1960s as public housing was built; in the mid-1990s the town council restored them as rural lodging, with seven caves and a cave-bar open to the public since 2002.

2002

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