“The other place is Tilting, on Fogo Island. In this case the locals had their village declared an official Heritage District. They haven’t made it all twee and put up lots of flashy tourist shops, though. They just decided to keep it more-or-less as it is.
They did take the opportunity to tell you a bit about their home, however, by erecting very informative signs, including several explaining that in the past they used to sometimes drag their houses around, and move them by boats.
Tilting would therefore seem to be appropriate named, given the precarious slant of some of these peripatetic structures. The actual reason behind the name, though, has been lost in the mists (or rather fogs) of time.”