This building has been turned into an Ethnographic Interpretation Centre.

If you’re wondering what that is, ethnographic means ‘relating to the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences.’ In other words, the building is being used as a sort of museum for the furtherment of local rural heritage.

Anyway, according to the Town Hall, the centre  is now open to the public every Sunday from 12:00h to 14:00h.

Inside you’ll find a collection of farming implements and traditional tools, most of which were donated by local residents who used them in their daily lives. 

The tour also includes a recreation of a traditional kitchen and a bread oven, giving visitors a glimpse of how life used to be. 

Now, being a silo, it is a very tall building and the upper gallery offers a birdseye view of the surrounding countryside.

The silo, with its capacity to store up to 2,300 tonnes of wheat, was built in 1966 and was an essential part of the local agricultural economy for decades.

Around two years ago, a street  artist, El Niño de las Pinturas, painted the four sides of the building with murals depicting scenes from the town’s rural past; something we reported on at the time. The project actually began almost three years previously and some of the councillors thought the idea was mad, but they finally came round after several modifications to the project.

(News: Padul, Valle de Lecrin, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Grain Silo, Museum, Traditional Kitch, Bread Oven, Farming Implements

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