"FROM afar, Portugal’s medieval village of Marvão looks like a fairytale mirage, huddled atop a mountain some 2,900 feet in the sky. To get there, you must drive up a steep and serpentine road — peppered with narrow hairpin turns — that takes you through clutches of cork and chestnut trees, and past Lilliputian settlements with pocket-sized flower gardens and low stone walls. Along the way, at certain twists and turns, you can catch fleeting glimpses of Marvão’s terracotta roofs and whitewashed walls. (...)"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/travel/29explorer.html?_r=0
I had the previlege to fully design the way-finding system of Marvão. I implemented and customized SIGNA (www.levosystems.com) which I also designed.
