A bizarre stone house built between four granite boulders, conceived of by a couple in the 1970s as a unique mountain getaway, has earned a fanbase for its weird, intriguing features.
Casa do Penedo, meaning “house of stone,” is located at 2,600 feet of elevation in the Fafe Mountains of Serra da Lameira, Portugal. It was conceived by Leonel and Maria José Rodrigues in the spring of 1973 and finished in October 1974. Leonel, a textile engineer, and Maria, a homemaker, had three children together and raised them in the city of Guimarães.
“Casa do Penedo was, and still is, our vacation home in the mountains,” the couple’s son, 55-year-old Vitor Rodrigues, told The Epoch Times. “It was made to be discreet and integrated into nature. It was made to not have any technology. … The house remains original, without a telephone, television, and electricity. But it has water and gas.”…