Road to Monsanto-09
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In the background you can see the hill that houses Monsanto, voted in 1938 the "most Portuguese village of Portugal". It deserves the title: perched on a granite hillside, the houses are squeezed between great boulders, with tiny gardens and vegetable-plots separated by stone walls and lanes blending into the grey rock. The ruined castle was a Lusitanian castro (stronghold), later restored by the Romans and suffered a long history of sieges and battles. The village is extremely well pr
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