Resumen de Urban vernacular architecture in the Middle Ages in Galicia, Spain
The emergence of the first urban settlements during the High Middle Ages in Galicia allowed the appearance of a typology of half-timbered houses with very heterogeneous characteristics according to the different Galician regions. Its general characteristics were a ground floor made of rammed earth, granite or schist stone and an upper floor made with a wooden framework system used as structural closures with different fillings (clay, straw, stone, brick or decking). The urban fabric of these settlements has been analyzed, studying the survival of the medieval lots. A small number of half-timbered houses of medieval origin have been found. The extension of this typology throughout the Galician geography allowed us to rethink part of the existing imaginary about vernacular construction in Galicia and contextualize the medieval Galician urban phenomenon within the European context.