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A difficult but beautiful road leads you to the village of Artenara, which at an altitude of 1270 m (4167 ft) is the highest village of the island and also one of the oldest.
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Beauty of a simple life
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Clinging to the mountainside, this peculiar village is doubtless the most spectacular of the island with many of its houses built in the solid rock of caves dating from prehistoric times. Although some of them – with their painted façades – look almost like ordinary houses, and most of them are equipped with all modern amenities.
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Traditionally life in the courtyard of the caves, took place mainly in the evenings before dusk. The courtyard was used for many everyday chores, cooking, laundry, shelling almonds, drying figs, cleaning potatoes, toasting maize, and espcially to "talk".