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Carnota hórreo

Carnota, Muros, A Coruña

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Carnota hórreo

Monument · Carnota, Muros, A Coruña

The hórreo of Carnota stands next to the baroque church of Santa Comba de Carnota, in the parish of the same name, and beside the rectory dovecote, in the municipality of Carnota. It was built in 1768 with eleven pairs of legs, and in 1783 eleven more were added, reaching 34.76 metres by 1.9 metres wide; it belongs to the Noia type of hórreo, built of granite, with a rectangular plan, a closed chamber and horizontal rows with ventilation slits, three doors on one of its sides and a crowning of baroque pinnacles and a cross atop a sphere. It was built to store the maize of the whole parish, and disputes with the hórreo of Lira the title of longest in Galicia. Protected since 1973 by the decree on hórreos and cabazos, it is a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection).

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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