History of Pedras d’el Rei
The Algarve placename “Pedras d’el Rei” has been recorded in Portugal since at least the 19th century. It means in English “Stones of the King” and refers in folklore to ancient sculpted stones which were known to exist in the area. Epigraphy of those stones identified the area to be on the suburbs of an important Ancient Roman town (Balsa) in the province of Lusitania, which town peaked in prosperity during the Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman peace"). The forum of Balsa was at this (nearby) location (currently fenced off, in private ownership and without public access).
The modern village of Pedras d’el Rei was planned by national authorities for the purpose of realising economic potential of the Algarve as an emerging tourist destination in the 1960s, but was constituted as a normal town containing several condominiums, independent homes, public land and infrastructure.
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Its architecture was intended to portray a vernacular style, influenced by findings from a national survey of Portuguese popular construction (1955 - 1960).
Construction of the new village was completed in two phases during the 1970s (although the remains of an Ancient Roman villa are said to have been destroyed in the process), coinciding with the Carnation Revolution which marked Portugal’s transition to democratic rule. Pedras d’el Rei was legally constituted as a “loteamento” (subdivided land including 5 original condominiums, many sole-ownership houses, plus public gardens, roads and infrastructure).
Unfortunately, it appears that laws of the newly democratic nation were purposefully subverted to impose an Illegal Local Dictatorship (fake HOA), which has persisted for almost 50 years. That Illegal Local Dictatorship claims personal sovereignty over all public infrastructure in the village and even decides what plants are permitted to grow on land it does not own. The Town Hall of Tavira and Parish of Santa Luzia claim that public infrastructure of Pedras d’el Rei was never accepted into public ownership due to original construction irregularities, but it seems more likely that the economic benefits from exploiting that land facilitated a culture of corruption by bribery of public officials.
Countless other illegal behaviours appear to have been perpetrated by the controlling dictatorship throughout the existence of the village of Pedras d’el Rei. A critical tactic used by the Illegal Local Dictatorship has been to systematically prevent homeowners from living in their homes. It has done this by preventing homeowners from receiving their private correspondence (using purposeful and calculated illegal methods). It has systematically marketed the toponym of the village - throughout many years - as if it is a tourist resort, and as if its houses are not houses but bars of gold. It annually invoices homeowners to pay almost 1 million euros towards the operating costs of its private business, as well as for services which are the duty of the municipality to provide; those “services” are carefully described as “optional”, but with clear reprisals in store for anyone who doesn’t pay for its protection racket.
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Local people have been prevented from living in the village of Pedras d’el Rei due to this artificial inflation of real estate prices, combined with doubly-fraudulent misrepresentation of the entire village as if it is both a single condominium and a tourist resort. All of this has been done for the purpose of harvesting wealth from many innocent people and putting it into the pockets of one man and his son.