In Brazil, a 69-year-old farmer spent 20 years building his own Italian-style stone house, one rock at a time, finally completing the project he began mostly alone

Representative AI image of close-up a the exterior wall of a rustic, hand-built Italian-style. (Image Credits: Chatgpt)A farmer in Brazil, 69, spent two decades turning about 2,000 stones into a house with inspiration drawn from the stone homes of Italy. Dionísio Bertoldi started the project in 1995 after his first marriage and completed it in 2015, building almost the entire residence by himself.