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When it comes near to the Valley of the Tiétar for the port of the Pico it is called the attention the marked difference of the saw and the hills, the multitude of vallejuelos, the green spot of the pinegrove and of the gardens, but, on having penetrated in his villages, the surprise increases on having seen the construction of the houses and, after crossing the hamlet, ancient, warning that the employment of the same constructive technology does not produce, ever, monotonous perspective since it happens in any city, but, it is more, to every step the traveler finds showy effects in squares or corners. And already be for the grace of the tracing of the streets, for the bulge of the eaves or for the impact of the flowery row of balconies, the traveler feels captivated by the singular of this architecture. To this type of architecture arisen from the experience of the man in his constant struggle with the matter and the way, transmitted by the tradition, to these effects of the creative intuition of the man it is to what we name popular architecture. Every natural way has his own requirements and, also it contributes materials and very different elements with which the man has to try to obtain the architectural solution most adapted to the needs that imposes the nature. Now that has entered crisis as result of the impact that on the rural life there have carried out the new needs of the life, the new materials and the new way of understanding the economy, we approach to a region, the Valley of the Tiétar, in that still it is possible - and wait that in a lot of time - to contemplate the way in which there has developed the life of many generations.

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