Lanjarón: Old manor houses

Grocery shopping, making reservations for the next 6 weeks, and another haircut (me this time) used up our morning, but left our afternoon free for some ficha detective work.

Of the 81 entries on the ADR inventory for Lanjarón, seven are for historic houses within the town limits, and all seven have street addresses given - a real rarity! So we had pretty good luck finding what we were looking for. We identified four of the seven for sure, and another one as a maybe. The other two have completely disappeared - not surprisingly, since the inventory was done 25 years ago.

It was quite fun to search these out. Ned had the 2001 photos on his phone, I had the ficha descriptions on my phone, and I also had a piece of paper where I had jotted down both the ficha number and the street address. When we thought we were at the right spot, Ned would compare the photo to the current building, and if it seemed like a match, I would share the ficha notes. We got quite excited over finding things like coats of arms and corbels. For each house that we were sure about, we put a waypoint on the Wikiloc track we were making and added photos to the track of any noted points from the ficha that were still visible.

We’ve walked by several of these buildings three or four times now, and never particularly noticed them before because they can be a bit (or a lot) rundown. But they took on a new life in our eyes when we had specific things to look for.

When we get home, I’ll have to level up my track editing skills and learn how to combine the fountains, tinaos, and manor houses currently on separate tracks into a single gpx track.

For anyone interested, the Spanish ficha 032 for the house at Calle Real, 44 in today’s photos is available online at https://79f1dde2-d033-4cc2-aad9-08edc948e824.fi…

I’ve translated the fichas for the villages we are visiting on this trip and have copies on my phone. I’ve attached the English version of ficha 032 as a document at the end of today’s photos.Read more