Same physical and climatic conditions result in similar structures when similar functions are considered. Various building types were formed in order to answer the needs of their users with the technology and scientific knowledge of the day. They evolved slowly and are handed down to generations as a tradition. The architecture created traditionally also carries the characteristic of special regions and reveals the of that zone and their inhabitants. Types of vernacular architecture change from one country to the other. Structures like fountains, coffee-houses, storages etc. may not be accepted as cultural properties to be conserved everywhere, but, it is the whole of such buildings that make up the built-environment, and indicate the identity of the place. Within this frame, the paper introduces a peculiar type of structure: the granaries, with examples from Iberia and Anatolia The plan schemes, details, construction systems are taken into consideration within the limits of the paper. The examples are chosen among those which have been studied in both the peninsulas, during a field study of two years. The comparison given mostly indicates to the resemblences. What is astonishing is that same or very similar forms were created by societies who were nearly unaware of each other. Indeed, the problems lies in the question of whether they are isolated or in close contact with each other, without current means of communication. Whatever the fact is, such examples of vernacular architecture are urgently in need of preservation and must be accepted as cultural properties. Transactions on the Built Environment vol 39 © 1999 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3509