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Pouets i safareigs

The wells are constructions that consist of a cistern excavated in the subsoil that in its outer and visible part we have the chapel with the corresponding laundry. Its mission was to have at any time a water reserve for different uses.

Among the different uses of the construction attached to the well “the laundry” we found that its purpose was double, on the one hand the washing of clothes that was subsequently dried in the sun, and another was the place where the Phytosanitary mixtures (mainly copper sulphate) to combat different diseases, mainly mildew of the vine.

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