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Before & After: In Menorca, a Family’s Crumbling Farmhouse Is Revived With Local Materials
Architect Gabriel Montañés brings in marés sandstone and indigenous plants to restore a 19th-century structure that sat abandoned for decades.
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On Menorca, the lesser known of Spain’s Balearic Islands, many locals consider traveling from one side of the island or the other—a distance of 46 kilometers (about 28.25 miles)—a considerable journey.
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