Two young women posing and photographing each other in the sunset on the sea at the Costa Adeje in the south of the Canary Island Tenerife, taken on 23.09.2018. Stoneworks artistically piled with natural stones often served as waymarkers in earlier cultures. However, the figures erected at prominent places no longer have such a function today. They serve hikers and tourists as an expression of their attachment to the place, of identification with traditions and as a symbolic appropriation of the environment, which conservationists themselves, however, criticize as an unwanted intervention. | usage worldwide