A lover of rural heritage, here you will find a complete inventory of dovecotes and dovecotes classified as historical monuments.
Both house pigeon breeding. Doves are more likely to be referred to as dovecotes, in the form of isolated round towers (walking column), in the north and dovecotes, on pillars (run), in the southwest.
Doves find refuge in bolts. Rotating scales allow the capture of eggs and pigeons. The "colbine" (pigeon's fiente) was also harvested, which was highly sought after as fertilizer for crops such as vines, vegetable gardens or orchards.
The possession of a dovecote (except in the southwest) was reserved for lords. The number of bolts was proportional to the area of land held. The more important the dovecote was, the richer the lord was.
The problem was that the pigeons ate the peasants' crops, while it was forbidden for anyone to kill pigeons under heavy fines. That's why the question of dovetails was the main one of the notebooks of rural grievances in 1789.
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