Strange settlements

One cultures are so different from ours that it is either very appealing to learn about it or very repulsive. Now, in your imagination, we’ll take you to landscapes you’ve never been to before — maybe you won’t — but they’re so special that even reading will be weird. There are settlements in the world that are very different from what we are used to.

In northeastern Morocco there is a town, Chefchaouen, whose houses are all blue. The Jews living in the settlement used the color blue to symbolize God’s presence with this as well, so one essentially gets a blue cityscape. In many cases, not only does the exterior of the house get the symbolic blue color, but even the interiors of the houses are loved to apply it.

There is a village in Brazil where there is a great balance in the gender distribution, as only women sing in Noivad do Cordeiro. The village of about 600 people is inhabited only by women and girls, but there are also married people among them. Even this does not mean that men can live in a community of women, they cannot have a say in the life of a women’s village in any way.

Spain Setenil de las Bodegas is notable for the fact that the whole town exists between rocks and carved into the rock. As a combat strategy, the Moors still enjoyed the protection of the mountains, yet the Spaniards were finally able to take it in, but did not relinquish the protection of the mountains.

There is a village in China that does not even exist on the mainland. Because it was built on the sea and does not even touch the mainland. The villagers build their floating homes from bamboo and wood, which are covered with plastic. As incredible as it may be, the inhabitants of a village called Sandu’ao can live such a separate life that they also have shops, a post office and a restaurant.

There is a small village in Japan where the number of people is decreasing and the place is being taken over by babies. The population is declining, the elderly have passed away, others have moved out of the village. A woman also moved to a big city in hopes of a better life. When he returned to his native village, he experienced how few people live in the village, so in order not to feel so alone, he replaced the deceased with life-size, hand-made dolls. He wanted to create a copy of the people who once lived there and “populate” the village, so the bus stop is always full, the hoe is in the busy hands, they sit on the bench and the “babies” talk. Thus, the village is not so uninhabited and tourists also like to visit the settlement full of babies.

The Australian heat is hard to bear and even more unbearable when you have to work in the blazing sun. Opal was found in the early 1900s so the possibility of mining it attracted many and they settled in this area, Coober Pedy was formed. Out of the heat and sun, the settling mining families moved underground. In addition to mining, there is also revenue from tourism, as many people want to see the underground city.

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(Source: marmalade.co.hu | pictures: pixabay.com | video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5oYe_q_Po)