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pajizas
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Plural of straw,-za adj.1 which is light yellow, as the paja.2 that is made or covered with straw.

  




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The old pajizas houses of Tenerife if through the Midlands area of the Valle de La Orotava, in the environment of the neighborhoods of La Florida and Pinolere will notice the existence of a series of buildings that have the peculiar feature that your cover is composed of vegetable matter. The pajizas houses, pajeros or pajales, which were the first houses on the island after the conquest and that, not only in the camps but also in the towns and cities of Tenerife, offered since its inception a landscape of stone walls and roofs of straw.The Cultural Association of Pinolere works on the cataloguing of the pajales existing in the Valley of La Orotava and in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of some of them. Among the actions carried out there emphasize putting up an interesting ethnographic museum in Pinolere, which recreate the history and customs of this Midlands area of Tenerife North and where we can visit three restored pajeros

  



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