- Located in the southeast of the Serra da Estrela, Monsanto is the most unique village by Portuguese houses here are "sandwiched" in the rock.
Over the centuries, Monsanto remains intact and sharp hardly altered. This village was built between the huge rocks with footpaths running along the stone wall.
Some homes come with granite doors are designed in the style of a typical Manueline in Portugal. Visit the village of Monsanto, you can admire the scenery remains of the castle from the Lusitanian and natural surroundings of the picturesque Serra da Estrela.
In 1938, Monsanto was voted "village bearing the most Portuguese identity" of the village exists in this country. Since then, every village remodeling job almost limited to Monsanto became a "living museum" of Portuguese culture.
Although it is difficult to reach Monsanto by public transportation, but this place is still to attract hundreds of tourists by the fresh air, vast landscapes and unique architecture of the house "sandwiched" in the rocks.
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