Today, tourism has moved out of its ghettoes, with fincas, farmhouses and stone cottages reimagined as hotels and villas. |
Steps and cobbled walkways lead down through the gardens from the farmhouses to the lawned pool terrace. |
Years ago it was the standard way of supplying water to houses and farmhouses. |
Attractive Georgian farmhouses with land capable of earning a respectable income are always a sellable commodity. |
The countryside is beautiful, with farmhouses and rice paddies in the valleys, surrounded by wooded hills and mountains. |
Some local farmers, without obtaining government permission, were setting up distilleries in their small farmhouses. |