A young man in Spain was not happy after an argument with his parents, so he decided to dig a cave of his own.
That young man’s name was Andres Canto. After arguing with his parents 6 years ago when they thought that Andres Canto couldn’t wear sportswear outside, it seemed that he had more courage to use a hoe to create his own cave to relax.
After school or in his spare time, Canto often performs burrowing by hand. Later, Canto’s friend Andreu brought along a pneumatic drill to speed up the process – the two eventually created a 3m deep cave. 
Andres Canto stands outside his cave. Six years later, Canto tried to create his own cave with separate living room and bedroom with heating, wifi, music system. Now 20 years old, Canto really doesn’t understand what motivated him so much to build this cave but he’s happy with the result. Canto continued: “It’s great, I have everything I need. Working here can be uncomfortable because it’s humid and there’s not much air around, but I found my own motivation to keep going. keep perfecting it every day”. Cantor’s burrow sometimes suffers from flooding and is often visited by insects, spiders, and snails, but this guy usually doesn’t mind. He further explained: “I have always liked building small huts. I live in the countryside and when I find discarded wood, I will build a nice house,” added Cantor. Canto estimates that the project costs no more than €50 (£43) as most of the building materials are much cheaper than he expected. Canto mainly burrows using buckets to bring up the soil, but eventually decided to incorporate other digging techniques such as using a pulley system. Canto also reinforced his cave’s roof using a vaulted entrance and vaulted ceiling with columns, as well as concrete walls to prevent collapse. 
Image of the cave during the previous construction. Video of Canto’s cave quickly went viral on social media and immediately attracted the attention of local authorities. Canto said: “Since I was the first to do such a thing, when the local officials arrived, there were no specific reports of it. It was not a basement, nor was it a warehouse, it’s just a well-built hut in the ground.” Amazingly, Canto’s parents were also normal with their son’s “retreat” in the ground. Canto even said: “My mother went down to the cave and told me it was smaller than the one in the video”.
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