Camino Photo of the Day: Timber Framing

This building in Grañón is typical of the construction of many older buildings in this stretch of the Camino. It’s clearly not built with standardized anything. There’s a rough charm of this type of construction that I really appreciate. I mean, the plaster needs a new coat, and if it were me I’d do something to seal up those timbers and protect them from the elements. But whatever would be done to protect the structure, I think it’s vital that the timbers not be hidden or the exterior smoothed and modernized.

Date: 10 April 2013
Place: Grañón (La Rioja, Spain)
Today started: Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja, Spain)