Cañar: Around the village

This morning we tried to find the thirteen items that are shown on the ADR inventory as being located in the central village area of Cañar. Since seven of the thirteen are grouped around the central plaza, we were pretty successful. Our current Wikiloc track is full of squiggles and wrong turns, but we’ll be able to make a better one before we leave on Friday.

We had a good chance to see the kind of quirky info the ADR inventory preserves when we were standing on the plaza. We would never in a million years have guessed that there was an acequia running beneath it, but the ADR ficha for the square told us there is a 30-meter long tunnel carrying the Acequia Grande underneath the stone pavement. I haven’t seen this info anywhere else - no civic plaque, no web presence in English, no tourist office brochure; so as a librarian, it’s quite satisfying to be able to make this and similar little pieces of history a bit more accessible through a Wikiloc track.

The houses with traditional architecture are scattered around town and were a little trickier to locate since three of the six had street names but no numbers given on the fichas describing them. One of the listed houses was in the process of being restored and had just been gutted. We had great views of how the lintels over the doors were fitted, how thick the walls were, and how many stones were hidden under the smooth finish normally applied to a house.

Tomorrow, we hope to track down the four mills just north of the village and one more to the south.Læs mere