LARRAUL

Larraul is a beautiful village of Gipuzkoa, with 250 inhabitants in the Aiztondo´s valley, Tolosa. It is near of the Cantabrian coast, in Ernio’s mount at an altitude of 1067 meters, on a few natural terraces. Thanks to this they could have been employed at the agriculture years after years. It is in a location of strategic height  which the forests take a  great part of the territory.

Before there were fewer inhabitants and in 1990 the population grow because they built new houses. More of the half of the population have less than 35 years and they have done new activities.

The most amazing thing of  Larraul is his ecomuseum. The aim was to recover the ethnographic pieces that they disperse in the hamlets of the village. There are the pieces given by the neighbors from 1998.

Furthermore, Larraul's ecomuseum has departed from a concept of new museum. In fact, the natural and cultural territories, on the one hand, and the community of the inhabitants and visitors, on the other hand, they take in active way to stimulate the manners of life based on the resources of around.

Nowadays, Larraul´s ecomuseum gives you the opportunity of knowing Tolosaldea´s zone and at the same time how has change the countryside.

Unlike the traditional museums, this ecomuseum does not limit himself to a showroom, and is open for other realities, activities and centers of interest. If you go there, you get information of the past and present countryside. The aim of them is to ignite the desires of thinking on the possibilities that we have in the future.