11. Portugal’s Monsanto
Monsanto, a small community, is referred to as “the most Portuguese village in Portugal.” The idiom “In Monsanto, you never know whether a stone is born from a house or a house from a stone” effectively captures the distinctiveness of regional architecture. Some dwellings have walls and roofs made of boulders.Narrow alleys appear to have been chiseled from stone by a giant, while little buildings with red tile roofs conceal themselves beneath enormous granite boulders.
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