The pallozas are the traditional houses by antonomasia, they are of pre-Romanesque origin, they have oval, circular or elliptical structure, with walls of great thickness of a stone, which open small windows and the necessary doors for the services of entrance and exit of their occupants, the roof is made of colmo and they do not have chimney, since the smoke was filtered through the straw.
Under the high, dense rye straw roof, which supported the weight of the snow and the mountain winds due to its steep slope, the snow stopped little on it, which shows us that pre-Romanesque man adapted to the climate of the area. Families lived together with their domestic animals, which provided them with the necessary warmth to withstand the low winter temperatures.
Inside these constructions, the few and scarce furnishings and domestic utensils used at that time have been preserved. There were two well-differentiated spaces, one for the livestock and farm implements and another for family life, in which there was usually a space for making fire, an oven for baking bread and a bedroom. In addition, they sometimes had an intermediate wooden floor, the Barra, in which the grass harvest was kept and which was also used for sleeping.
