A village of stone in Portugal

Monsanto was voted in 1938 the “most Portuguese village in Portugal” nestles on the slope of a steep hill (the Monsanto head, known in Latin as Mons Sanctus) , which rises abruptly above the prairy and reaches a height of 758 meters 2486 feet).)The most typical  aspect of Monsanto is the fact that the  village developed around impressively big and miraculously balanced granitic boulders.