The medieval villages and towns of the
Catalonian region with their walls and narrow laneways provide both protection from
the next invader and from the heat and the Tramontana (wind) that blows across
the Pyrenees in winter and is both fierce and biting. Descriptions abound on its
impact on both buildings and lives. From
the walls
and lines of beech trees that have been designed as windbreaks to its effect on
people including the ‘making of children giddy on the first day and causing
depression when it blows for a week’.
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