It rolled

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!

Merci encore Marie-Claire.

Monsanto?

Yes.

Strange ...

It is BC era, Andy spoke of it.

Uma construção muito interessante!

Obrigado Helena.

Terrific! There a re few villages like this in the Sistema Central in Spain and I can see the granite geology is the same. I tried taking some photos but the angles were all wrong. I would need to get invited into a house and go to an upper floor window!

Thank you Andy. It is in the core of Iberia exactly in the Lusitania, the castros zone.
A castro is a fortified pre-Roman Iron Age village, usually located on a hill or some naturally easy defendable place. They were made out of stone with thatch roofs resting on a wood column in the centre of the building. In the major oppida there were regular streets, suggesting some form of central organization. Castros vary in area from less than a hectare to some 50 hectare ones, and most were abandoned after the Roman conquest of the territory

Thank you for that info, Isabel. I have always been fascinated by village origins, why they were established at such such a site, etc etc. Your explanation of these village origins and also the 'castro' name is extremely interesting to me. I should have realised the castro name came frorm the latin for military camp, I just never thought about it, despite quite a few of my students having this common surname! And I certainly didn't know that it was the Latin term for a PRE- Roman fortification; even more interesting!

Just to cross the t and dot the i on this subject:
Please do remember that in the very South of the country there is a very old village by the Guadiana River with the name Castro Marim ( the Phoenicians took salt and other things from there). And on the very North of Portugal there is an ancient village known because they still breed what is probably the oldest shepherd dog of Iberia, now almost in extinction ( but I am the proud owner of one ...) called Castro Laboreiro. Pls see www.ipernity.com/doc/j.gafarot/46144900
Regards, Jose

No idea why I confused you with Isabel! Sorry Jose! My only excuse is that I normally comment very late at night!! But, anyway thank you for the extra information. I am genuinely interested!
Best wishes,
Andy

Amazing shot!

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Thank you William Sutherland.

Esmagadora leveza?

No momento não se dá por ela, só a permanência mostra as imposições que isso causa.

Very nice together with the words, Jose ! Good Morning !

Thank you John.

That's amazing !!
Well seen and taken José.

Thank you Jaap.

How so beautiful

Happy new week:)

Thank you Annemarie, and hope all will be well for you too.

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Thank you twice June.

WOWWWWWWW, plus qu'impressionnant, Jose !!! Bonne semaine !!!

Merci Marie-Claire, bonne semaine pour toi aussi.

the house in the rocks ...

Yes, this time is not the other "thing" . . .

amazing situation!

Thank you Berny.

One makes do with what one has...

A simple amazing sight to see.

Thank you Dough.

Plutôt bien chapeautée cette maison (lol) remarquable saisie, bravo !

Merci Jocelyne.

Comme une coulée ...impressionnant !

Merci Eve.

Assim se poupam paredes!

Sim Dimas, desde os pré-romanos embora com colmo em vez de telhas, naturalmente.

great photo of life so completely connected with the landscape - amazing. i wish my town's architects would head nature this way.

and i'm really happy to learn of the quote: "Maybe we should love what we can not understand"
Albert Camus
thanks for sharing!

Thank you.
It is alive on the back of head for so long that I remember my youth...

WAOUhhh même pas peur que ça bouge...!
merci José pour ce partage.. vraiment insolite...

Merci Roland.
Ils sont braves dans ve village et en plus c'est à ou je suis retourné en premier lieu aprés avoir "trainé" un peu partout dans le monde. Ma fille avait alors deux ans et maintenant elle a 40 et fait du service social dans les Pyrénées; c'est devenu un endroit fétiche pour moi.

Ongelooflijk

Thank you Fred, I do hope so.

This looks rather precarious but I guess it has held up for a very long time and will do in future:-)