The Teruel farmhouse. Crisis of a population model

Abstract

Speaking of the “masías”, we do it of an integrated elements in our landscape, of these cultivation which have their origin in the Middle Ages, and they “are the sum of a secular productive culture” .  Speaking of dispersed habitat is do it of a historic constant in the turolonse middle rural, from the Middle Ages to our days, where the “masías”, also called towers and “mases ”, it constitute in a landscape reality, in a model of ordination of the territory, that it is bases in the self – sufficiency. This let the management of the environment and the cultivation of all lands of the township. The “masía, as structure of temporary or permanent habitat, allow palliate the difficulty own of the big physic distances which separate the territory of cultivation and zones of grazing of the urban. These make profitable the work, that the otherwise it would see affected by the land dispersion and the character concentred of the habitat.

The claim of this work is give to know its evolution and justify its current situation. The reason for their survival in some places,  the reason for their disappearance or abandonment in other, and some of the keys about what can guarantee their future.