Prisoner's family house. Valle de los Caídos

More close to a shanty than a proper house at the Banús camp; in this kind of spaces the families of the prisoners who worked as masons and stonecutters in the Valle de los Caídos monument lived during years. They were allowed to be with their companions, what made sure they didn't flee, another kind of jail. The conditions in these neighborhood were pitiful, with trash sacttered, no water, nor electricity or canalizations. The families create their one orchards and enclosures close to the river trying to guarantee a minimum food supply for them and their hundsbands. Iron cans were recycle, tires were cut and used as shoes and wire was used to make traps for birds...a truly subsistence economy fully dependent of the smuggling outside the camps. The walls were rose up roughly using debris from quarries, being the mudbriks a pure luxury reserver to do the chimneys. The floor was a miixture of concrete and earth, reserved to the space covered by the bed. Who doesn't want to stay a season in this luxury hotel ?