Casa-Museo del Campesino and Monumento a la Fecundidad, Mozaga, Spain. Architect: Cesar Manrique, 1972. Staircase going undergro

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In the geographical centre of Lanzarote, at an important crossroads whence any part of the island can be reached, there stands one of the works of César Manrique that carries that most symbolic references: the architectonic collection of the Casa-Museo del Campesino y Monumento a la Fecundidad (Museum-House and Monument to Fertility). An imaginary central axis running through the island would pass through Mozaga, in the municipality of San Bartolomé, where three different agricultural areas meet: the jable, the artificial enarenados (method of dry cultivation) and the natural enarenados of La Geria. It is made up of a series of buildings which are inspired by typically traditional Lanzaroteña architecture: not reproducing an existing concrete model but rather combining the most characteristic elements of the island's distinct geographical areas. The museum-house contains representative elements such as chimneys, threshing floors, wells, patios, carpentry, presses, etc.

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