Cave
Caves and troglodyte
- wide range still lived in today in Europe, includes the cave homes near the Alhambra, Granada Spain.
- these manmade ‘casa cueva’ form part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and there are thousands of full blown homes of this nature in this part of Spain.
- like many designs featured on this site, casa cueva is becoming aspirational living at present.
“Granada province has the largest cave dwelling population in Europe, and casa cueva has been a form of natural home since the Moors invaded Iberia in the 8th century” – Charles Leary
“In South France, domestic cave dwellings, known as troglodyte homes, offer a history as rich as the region’s chateaus” – Krstin Ohlson, May 2009

