White Stable Door


During the Philippines' Spanish era, houses of affluent families commonly had two or more floors - the upper floors were residential areas, while the ground areas were used as silong.  The silong was used as a storage area as well as a stable, so the doors were high and wide to accommodate horses and their riders.

This here is a fraction of such a door (likely not the original) on one of the old mansions in the City of Vigan.  At the lower right you could see the edge of the human-sized door.

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