MONSANTO, PORTUGAL: A boulder dominates the local high street. 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
MONSANTO, PORTUGAL: A boulder dominates the local high street. 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
