Experience Dry Stone Week 2025 - A journey to the heart of rural heritage!

From November 21st to December 7th, a new edition - the sixth - of Dry Stone Week arrives, an essential event to discover, experience and enjoy our heritage built stone by stone.

This year, the activities will extend throughout the territory of Catalonia, Andorra and the Valencian Community, with more days to enjoy without rushing and participate in more than one proposal.

Dry Stone Week 2025

From November 21st to December 7th, Catalonia, Andorra, and the Valencian Community will be filled with activities to celebrate another edition of Dry Stone Week. A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a living heritage, where nature, tradition, and creativity come together to create authentic experiences.

This year, the calendar has been expanded to offer more days and more opportunities to participate, with activities for all tastes and ages. Whether you enjoy walking, learning, observing, or simply taking in the scenery, you'll find your ideal activity.

Guided tours are a major highlight. You'll explore paths winding through vineyards, past riverbanks and dry-stone huts that tell stories of work, effort, and harmony with the land. Routes like the discovery of the huts of La Pobla de Montornès or the dry-stone hut route of Cunit will allow you to experience the beauty of the region from a different perspective, guided by experts who will help you understand how these structures are an integral part of our cultural landscape.

For the curious and creative among you, the hands-on workshops are an experience you won't want to miss. You can learn the basics of dry stone walling, build small walls, or repair riverbanks with your own hands. And if you're visiting as a family, there are children's workshops that turn learning into play; the little ones can build their own miniatures and discover the value of stone as a living element of the landscape.

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The exhibitions and educational events offer a space to observe, reflect, and be moved. Photographic displays, books, and research projects highlight this heritage, which, far from being merely an ancient technique, continues to inspire architects, landscape designers, and nature lovers.

Will you also find talks and conversations that encourage reflection on the fauna of the dry stone, or on Dry Stone and Geology in the Penedès?, among others, a moment to share knowledge and strengthen the link with our collective history.

And if you want to get seriously involved, you can join conservation and cataloging activities, where participants collaborate on documenting or restoring traditional huts and riverbanks. A wonderful way to make your mark and contribute directly to preserving heritage.

Dry Stone Week is not just a schedule of activities, it is an experience to reconnect with the land, with memory and with the way of understanding the territory that the generations that preceded us have had.

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The Mediterranean coast is one of the areas with the highest concentration of dry stone structures. In rural areas, there is a significant heritage of dry stone constructions that shape the landscape through huts, shacks, cisterns, farmhouses, ovens, waterwheels, fountains, embankments, ponds, and vats.

This body of knowledge and techniques is based on constructing buildings using local stones without any binding agents such as lime or gypsum. Most of these structures are directly related to agricultural or livestock farming, forestry, or water supply.

In Catalonia, many of them are protected as cultural assets of local interest (BCIL), cultural assets of national interest (BCIN), Zones of Ethnological Interest (ZIE), or located in natural parks or other categories of protected spaces.

Despite its ecological, aesthetic, historical, and cultural value, this heritage is mired in neglect, leading to its deterioration and destruction. Unfortunately, this coincides with the disappearance of the traditional stonemason's craft and the loss of knowledge about this construction technique. For years, organizations and volunteers have been working to maintain, restore, and promote this heritage and this technique, which, moreover, has proven its worth in addressing the challenges of contemporary architecture.

Dry Stone Week