MONSANTO, PORTUGAL: A view of the boulder roof from inside a home. WELCOME to the village where the locals are forced to live like the Flintstones under giant boulders weighing up to TWO HUNDRED tonnes. From the local café to a typical home these pictures show how these ingenious and brave villagers have adapted their homes to match their stone-filled environment, even if that means having a roof that weighs more than a medium-sized ship. Administrator Xalima Miriel (40) travelled 700-miles from her home in Irun, Spain to Monsanto in Portugal especially to take these extraordinary pictures of
MONSANTO, PORTUGAL: A view of the boulder roof from inside a home. WELCOME to the village where the locals are forced to live like the Flintstones under giant boulders weighing up to TWO HUNDRED tonnes. From the local café to a typical home these pictures show how these ingenious and brave villagers have adapted their homes to match their stone-filled environment, even if that means having a roof that weighs more than a medium-sized ship. Administrator Xalima Miriel (40) travelled 700-miles from her home in Irun, Spain to Monsanto in Portugal especially to take these extraordinary pictures of this rock village that time forgot.
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Keywords: architecture, boulder, buildings, europe, house, monsanto, portugal, rocks, settlement, village
