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What nobody tells you: why you need a ground study before building your home?

Your dream can turn into a nightmare if you ignore what lies beneath your feetYou’ve been saving for years. At last you have that plot of land where you’ll build the house of yo...

Guide to carry out a geotechnical study: Key steps and recommendations

1. What is a geotechnical study and why is it important?The geotechnical study is the process of analysing the physical and mechanical properties of the soil on a specific site....

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El castillo de Alcañiz, símbolo del recinto amurallado impulsado por la orden de Calatrava.

Alcañiz grew between the reeds of the Guadalope and the walls of Calatrava

The Guadalope encircles Alcañiz with a meander that is not only a feature of the landscape: it also appears in the account of the city’s origin. Along its banks, reeds or...

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Vista de excavaciones en el Alcázar de Jerez de la Frontera, donde se documentaron fondos de cabañas y huellas de antiguos silos (hallazgos ligados al Calcolítico).

Jerez de la Frontera: the city that learned to store grain and wine because the subsoil never forgot

Between the arcades of the Alcázar, the air seems still. But if you pause to look at the excavated ground, that stillness is deceptive: there are traces of silos and of...

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La Cárcava, en Boadilla del Monte, donde el paisaje residencial convive con espacios abiertos y vegetación.

Boadilla del Monte: when the hill stopped separating the town and urban planning tried to stitch it together

A city that grows where the hillside began There comes a moment, when crossing Boadilla del Monte, when the city changes scale. The streets of the traditional core give...

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Los muros del castillo de El Catllar nacen directamente del afloramiento rocoso del cerro, haciendo casi indistinguible la frontera entre roca natural y piedra trabajada.

El Catllar, where the rock rules from the castle to the church

There is a detail that goes unnoticed by anyone who reaches the old centre of El Catllar for the first time. The walls of the castle do not begin where the ground ends...

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El puente sobre el curso de agua en Bertamiráns, con el paseo y las viviendas al fondo, resume el encuentro entre el valle y la ciudad reciente.

Ames, the valley where the water had to coexist with the new town

The bridge crosses a watercourse while, behind it, the façades of Bertamiráns form an urban line that seems not to have been there for very long. Under the grass, the...

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Molina de Aragón historia geología

Molina de Aragón, the mineral that bears its name was formed on the seabed of a Triassic sea

In 1788, the German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner took some crystals collected alongside the River Gallo, in Molina de Aragón, and subjected them to analysis. They...

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