Mountains, castles, goat cheese, and going offline in central Portugal’s restored schist villages.
A two-hour drive northeast of Lisbon, in central Portugal’s central region, are the Aldeias do Xisto—a network of 27 “schist villages” built on the forest-covered slopes of the Serra da Lousã and Açor mountain ranges, named for the rock used to construct them.
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