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Lavadero Público de Càrcer(Cárcer)

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Public washing places are part of the popular culture of the villages of the Valencian Community, as for many years they were used to wash clothes and other work clothes such as sacks and bundles.

They were the places most frequented by all the women of the village, they were moments of meeting, they represented a real forum for social relations in which there was no room for class distinction.

Before the construction of washing places, it was traditional to wash in the rivers and streams closest to each village, which served as natural washing places.

The seed of today's washing places were the modest additions of basins and other simple alterations to the fountains and troughs where women used to wash. Subsequently, the washhouses gradually formed a space of their own.

Although the dating of these structures is very complex, the public washing places must have started to appear at the end of the 19th century, although most of them belong to the first half of the 20th century, many of them during the dictatorship.

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