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Ada Colau
Spanish activist and politician

Francisco Hernando Contreras
Spanish businessperson (1945-2020)
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masia
thumb|right|260px|La Masia|La Masia de Can Planes in Les Corts, Barcelona
Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca
organization
Ministry of Development
government ministry in Spain

pazo
thumb|Pazo de Meirás in Sada (19th century), summer home of [[Francisco Franco]]
A pazo () is a type of Galician traditional house. Similar to a manor house, pazos are usually located in the countryside, as former residences of important people in the community (formerly of kings and nobility). They were of crucial importance in the 17th to 19th centuries, related to rural and monastic architecture and the system of feudal organization, and they constituted a type of local management unit around which the life of the villagers revolved. Over time they became the social symbol and refuge of the
cortijo
thumb|right|300px|A cortijo near Píñar, [[Granada province, Spain.]]
A cortijo is a type of traditional rural dwelling (akin to the German Bauernhof, also known as a farmhouse in English) in the southern half of Spain, including all of Andalusia and parts of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha.