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 Side view of the main house, taken at 11:00 a.m. on May 1st 2008, the house dates from 1865. |  Characteristic detail on the roof. |
 View from the hill in back of the house. The hill being one of this area's typical rounded rocky outcrops. |  The house, as seen from the finca's stone-built traditional chicken coop. |
 Showing a pasture near the house. |  Another view of the house, through flowering lavender. |
 Ancient hand-hewn seat on the side of the house, with drinking trough in front. |  Chicken coop. |
 Pasture with holm oaks. |  Living room with intact ornamental original chimney, called "chimenea francesa" here. |
 Showing original cupboard with part of the wholly intact domed ceiling. |  Front door from the inside, it needs renewing of course. |
 Superb condition of domed ceilings. |  Another view of the living room + chimney. |
 View from the house. |  Idem. |
 Fresh wild boar sign. |  Typical spring sight on the finca. |
 Plantlife on the many rounded boulders, or kopjes, on the finca. |  From the highest rock on the finca. |
 Beautiful growth on boulders. |  Ancient small spring-fed rivulet, having scoured a runnel in the boulder throughout the ages. |
 View from farm to pigsty behind the trees. |  Foxholes in magical rock formation. |
 A neighbour passing by. |  Extremadura is dry and arid, you said? |
 Ancient feeding trough cut into a boulder, near brook. |  Cattle here are not dehorned, and they show it! |
 More beautiful plantlife on boulders. |  Some cactus. |
 New growth of holm oaks in the foreground. |  Showing the house's windows, more like loopholes. |
 Natural front terrace. |  Wine-making equipment, hand-carved into a solid granite boulder near the house. |
 Taken from the highest point of the finca, view towards the house and Portugal on the horizon. |  Hand-hewn wash-basins carved into rock near the house. |
 A nearby sanctuary during the annual 'Romería' = pilgrimage. |  Local transport. |
 Traditional "mosquitero" between the horse's eyes. By shaking his head he keeps any pests at bay. |  What cowboy saddles used to look like, before they started fighting sheepfarmers in the Wild West. Here saddles never changed. |
 Showing extremeño iron stirrups. The conquistadores had them in bronze, as still found in the Americas. |  Romería = local fiesta barstool. Drinks taste great, when riding a pure-bred Spanish stallion. |
 The annual pilgrimage site, with more than one bar. |  The house again. |
 Another ancient carved boulder for wine-making. Were the Romans here? According to the monumental nearby 106 A.D. bridge over the Tagus river at Alcántara, they surely were! |  Pasture. |
 Nature all around. No noise, no chemicals, no pollution. |  Further views of the finca. |
 Idem. |  Small brook. |
 Idem. |  A neighbour's corral during roundup. |
 Showing the lay of the land. |  A water hole, fed by a perpetual spring. |
 The former orchard and vegetable patch, rich soil, spring-fed all year. |  The stable-annex to the house, to be used as living area as well. |
 Driving some six kilometres from the finca, wide open spaces... |  More views. |
 Another view of the house's sheltered position. |  Starting here, a 360º view. |
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 Wash basins near the house. |  Chimney with windrose. |
 Vegetable patch immediately behind the house, rich, watered soil. |  Looking the other way. |
 Chicken coop. |  Wine-making equipment, cut into the living rock. |
 Orchard boundary. |  Orchard. |
 Orchard. |  Orchard. |
 Mushroom stone in the finca's hidden valley. |  Lovely plant life on boulders, are they lichens? |
 Two massive pine trees on the finca, where an imperial eagle pair nestles. |  Showing the valley, where a small brook runs, now trampled nearly shut by cattle. |
 The rock near the pine tree, where the eagle sits early morning. |  One of the finca's wells. |
 The well again. |  Idem. |
 Ancient stone dwelling under the trees. |  Majestic tree growing out of a massive boulder. |
 Some gnarled fig trees. |  The bed of the brook in the valley, now overgrown, but easily cleaned. |
 Sunset on the finca, looking towards the West and Portugal. |  Another waterhole. |
 Idem. |  Sunset. |
 The finca's watchman, a large vulture. |  The marble slab, which used to sit above the front door, showing the year the house was built: 1865. |