The Weight of a Wall

‘Every stone tells its own history,’ said the archeologist, during the guided tour in the National Monument Castro da Cola , in the southern part of the Alentejo in Portugal.

Building a wall of limestone two and a half meters thick and six meters tall must have a reason.

The walls depicted in the acrylic painting are the basement of a tower constructed in the 10th century. On the hill, more than 200 meters high, the first settlements were built by the Romans as a strategic place, with the rivers Mira and Marchiçao serving as vital water sources and barriers against enemies.

As explained in my biography, Atelier Moradias is near the Barragem (Lake) Santa Clara, which extends to the north, where Castro da Cola is situated. The limestones fixed on the canvas prove the authenticity of a landscape whose history spans thousands of years, and nowadays nature is looking for a good balance, although this balance has been disturbed for the last year by another ‘enemy’

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that is the champion of replacing soil and limestone. Hunters, please
bring the balance back before we have to build bigger walls !
(rtp.pt)