[franch]

Not all stone houses are castles or luxury residences. My family's house (northern Italy in the Alps) is at least 600 years old (there is a painting on the outside that has been dated to around 1420) but it is a working-class home. The interior has been repurposed many times over the centuries, but it is still there and inhabited.

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[arethuza]

Entire cities in the UK are famous for the kind of stone they are largely built from e.g. Aberdeen and its granite, Edinburgh and sandstone:

http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Building_stones_of_Edin...