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A cave house is a home that is constructed either partly or wholly underground, almost always into the side of a hill. We all know that caves were the original home for homo sapiens at the very beginning of its evolution but we are considering here the new, modern cave homes of today found in various parts of Southern Spain and especially in Northern Andalucia.
Most modern cave homes have a number of rooms that are excavated in the surrounding hillside, often bedrooms, with a conventional part of the house built onto the front. Cave houses have many advantages over a wholly conventional constructions.

* They are cheaper to build and hence cheaper to buy.
* Because of their high thermal insulation properties they have lower running costs.
* Because of the thermal properties of the surrounding rock they are cool in the hot summers of southern Spain and warmer in winter than conventional houses.
* Each one each is unique in design and appearance.

Because of the dry climatic conditions and the type of rock in which they are built they are dry and it is unusual to find any form of dampness within the cave rooms.