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many have been rebuilt after fires, Aezkoan
houses fall in with the rules of Pyrenean
architecture. They have steep roofs tiled
with clay tiles as a fire-preventing replacement
for the traditional wooden slats which can
still be found on some barns.
The houses of Salazar fall
in with a style which can be found from
Burguete to Girona. Solid and sober, with
stone walls and narrow façades, these
houses are huddled close to one another,
separated by an alley known as an “etxekarte”.
Their gable, hip or mansard roofs are extremely
steep and are tiled with flat tiles. They
have three storeys and an adjoining yard.
The Roncal house: The villages
of Roncal are generally compact affairs,
the houses huddled close in together, but
avoiding shared walls insofar as possible.
The buildings are often grouped into blocks
of two or three houses with small vegetable
gardens in between, which break the closed
aspect of the nucleus.
Traditional houses have thick, solid walls
adapted to meet the demands of the climate.
Their roof are steep in the villages of
the north and shallow out as you go south.
As in the other valleys of the region, hip
or mansard roofs reflect the wealth of the
owners.
Many houses have yards within the village
nucleus itself.
 Luzaide-Valcarlos:
The vicissitudes of history have
shaped an Atlantic-style village with small,
isolated groups of buildings and houses
scattered over the hillside. More benevolent
winters have made for shallower roofs. Beyond
the nucleus are isolated farmhouses with
wide-eaved roofs surrounded by a mosaic
of fields bearing a variety of crops.
 The
houses in the Pre-Pyrenean basins
are a synthesis of the Pyrenean style and
that of Navarre’s Mid Region, made
of stone and brick. In this line, the structure
of the village of Lumbier is mediaeval.
Located on a high point of the meadow shaped
by the river, it has been known since Roman
days (local archaeological sites exist).
The village is oval-shaped with narrow streets
and houses tightly huddled together.
Other variations of house type can be found
in other valleys, such as Erro,
Esteribar and Izagaondoa.
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