Year: 2026

Monsanto is a village in eastern Portugal, hard against the Spanish border, built on a granite hill covered in enormous boulders. People did not move

Peneda-Gerês is the only national park in Portugal, created in 1971 in the far north western corner of the country, hard against the Spanish border.

Aldeias do Xisto are twenty seven villages in central Portugal, built entirely from slabs of schist quarried out of the hillside beside them. Almost all

Costa Vicentina is the stretch of south western Portuguese coast that nobody managed to build on. A natural park created in 1995 froze development along