{"id":156,"date":"2014-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-03-17T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:46:38","slug":"living-in-a-cave-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/hogar\/vivir-en-una-casa-cueva","title":{"rendered":"Living in a cave house"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Living in a cave house<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caves have been around as long as the world has existed and so has the concept of a cave den.<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class='post-info'>7 January 2014 by <a href='https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/autor\/monapart'>Monapart<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/cueva-prehistoria.jpg?itok=bx37ndWV\" alt=\"cave house : Monapart \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They had two moments of splendour over the centuries, in the Nasrid period, when they were conceived as a home for a family, and during the first half of the 20th century, when demographic development and the population's need to find a home brought them back to prominence. But it should not be forgotten that the <strong>CAVE HOUSES<\/strong> They were also more caves than houses, acting as a refuge for those who fled and were persecuted by the law, who found in the rocks the transitory calm of the fugitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/cueva-bandolero-serrallonga.jpg?itok=3YZOVSos\" alt=\"bandit cave : Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The humble origins of the first cave houses have given way over time to homes with all kinds of comforts and luxuries, such as Jacuzzi and Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/jacuzzi-en-casa-cueva.jpg?itok=HAiCsZDr\" alt=\"cave house with jacuzzi | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The profile of those who still own property varies over the years.<strong>.<\/strong> Whereas in the past it was mainly farm labourers, today it is mainly older people, young families who have inherited the houses or foreigners from northern European countries who see these houses as an exotic and sunny retirement. The prerequisites for these cave dwellings not to have been destroyed by the passing of the centuries are precisely the sun and the lack of rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live in a cave home\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k__jV62Yv_0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the use of cave dwellings is changing, and one of the ways in which they are being used is the <strong>rural tourism<\/strong>charming lodgings with all kinds of comforts. Our country is one of the richest examples of this type of constructions and a representative example is this one <strong>cave-house in Granada<\/strong> announced in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbnb.es\/rooms\/1497806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Airbnb<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/dormitorio-cueva-hotel-granada.jpg?itok=hXtavNmV\" alt=\"Cave house in Granada : Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many other examples of refurbished and converted charming hotels in France, the USA or Jamaica. Without going any further, the hotel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sextantio.it\/legrottedellacivita\/matera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita<\/strong><\/a> in Italy is a good example of this trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/dormitorio-cueva-hotel.jpg?itok=ZGXYyEHE\" alt=\"Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/banera-cueva-hotel.jpg?itok=Z6q4wcSX\" alt=\"Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Underground architecture is evolving into design. Such is the case of the British footballer <strong>Gary Neville<\/strong>which has a flower-shaped dwelling dug into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/gary-neville-house.jpg?itok=kycHWyoC\" alt=\"Footballer Gary Neville&#039;s house | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although for lovers of tradition, this type of building \"does not maintain the real essence of cave houses\", says Arturo Rot\u00e1n, an architect who has participated in the remodelling of some cave houses in the province of Granada. Be that as it may, the experts put the spotlight on an architect, the Swiss <strong>Peter Vetsch<\/strong>He has been a benchmark in this type of construction since he began designing these buildings in the 1970s, and his work is controversial, as he uses elements such as cement and metal mesh in his houses. His work is controversial, since he uses elements such as cement or metal mesh in his houses and therefore there are architects who consider that his dwellings are not sustainable architecture. Would you live in a cave house?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/scale_960x960_\/public\/mediabrowser\/peter-vetsch_1.jpg?itok=PBA8Eru_\" alt=\"Peter Vetsch&#039;s cave houses in Switzerland | Monapart\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is a summary of the report that A. Ariztoy published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pisos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pisos.com<\/a> on the <strong>CAVE HOUSES<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caves have existed for as long as the world has existed and so has the concept of the cave dwelling, and the humble origins of the first cave houses have given way over time to dwellings with all kinds of comforts and luxuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivir en una casa cueva Las cuevas existen desde que el mundo es mundo y su concepto de guarida tambi\u00e9n. Tuvieron dos momentos de esplendor a lo largo de los siglos, en la \u00e9poca nazar\u00ed, cuando se conciben como hogar para una familia, y durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, cuando el desarrollo demogr\u00e1fico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2844,2846],"tags":[2884,2870,2871],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hogar","category-espacios-y-vida","tag-especiesdeespacios","tag-diseno","tag-interiorismo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monapart.com\/magazine\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}