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Must visit: The three most beautiful ‘lost’ towns in Spain that could soon cease to exist due to depopulation – including one in Malaga

AROUND 3,000 villages in Spain have been abandoned in recent decades due to depopulation as younger people go to big cities for work. Accessibility and

9 Jun, 2024 @ 08:00

Andalucia·Lead·Malaga

Over 100 people apply to run a bar in one of the least populated towns in Spain

Andalucia’s second smallest village received over 100 applicants to open the only bar in the town. This followed the Council’s call for hopeful entrepreneurs to

2 Mar, 2023 @ 15:00

La Cultura·Other News·Travel Andalucia

Fire-ravaged Vall de-Ebo area of Spain's Alicante Province gets cash boost

Fire-ravaged Vall d’Ebo area of Spain’s Alicante Province gets cash boost

NEW support of up to €2 million has been promised to the fire-hit Vall d’Ebo area of Alicante Province. The pledge came on Tuesday in

30 Aug, 2022 @ 18:00

Alicante·Lead·Valencian Community

Town in Spain’s Castellon province offers €2,000 reward for each birth or adoption in bid to reverse declining population

LA MATA DE MORELLA, a town of just 170 residents, will welcome each new birth or adoption with €2,000, an incentive to boost numbers where

4 Nov, 2021 @ 19:00

Castellon·Lead·National News·Valencian Community

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Reality show tackles Spain’s rural depopulation problem with search for entrepreneurs

A NEW reality TV show is launching this October with an aim to tackle depopulation in some of Spain’s most rural villages. The 20-episode show,

6 Aug, 2021 @ 17:15

Lead

Town in rural Spain offers free house and job to encourage young families to move

THE town of Griegos in the province of Teruel, in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain has been swamped with applications after offering free houses

20 Jul, 2021 @ 12:00

Lead·Other News·Property

Spain’s population could halve by end of century while African countries’ soar, says US study

A RECENT study has revealed that Spain’s population is expected to halve in 80 years while those in African countries such as Nigeria and Kenya

17 Jul, 2020 @ 12:26

IN PICS: The stunning and highest villages in Spain at risk of abandonment

Spain’s cliff-hanging enclaves hark back to the times of medieval conquest and even Roman occupation

13 Apr, 2019 @ 16:38

Costa Blanca·Lead·Mallorca·National News·Property

LONG READ: Meet the collective facing jail after trying to save a Spanish town from extinction as depopulation becomes national crisis

Known as’ the Ground Zero of rural depopulation’, Guadalajara province covers 4,200 km2 but has only 8,900 inhabitants, the equivalent of 2.1 people to every

13 Apr, 2019 @ 16:36

Lead·Politics

Thousands march in Madrid as depopulation rocks rural Spain

MADRID has seen large protests by rural Spaniards who fear their communities are withering away. The movement, labelled the ‘revolt of an empty Spain,’ brought

1 Apr, 2019 @ 13:22

Environment·Lead·Politics