Usignola / Half-Timbered Villages
Architectural Style

Half-Timbered Villages

Villages built in the half-timbered (colombage / Fachwerk) tradition — timber frames infilled with stone, brick, or render, visible on the façade.

3 villages

No. 002

Eguisheim

Grand Est (Alsace), France
Eguisheim's streets curve in concentric rings around its original medieval fortress, a layout still legible from above.
Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
No. 004

Gerberoy

Hauts-de-France, France
With fewer than a hundred residents, Gerberoy is one of the smallest members of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France.
Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
No. 024

La Alberca

Castile and León (Salamanca), Spain
La Alberca was the first village in Spain to be granted national historic-monument status, in 1940.
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