Spain's Abandoned Villages
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- Ghost Village (2014): Hundreds of rural villages around Galicia in Spain are frozen in time, long-abandoned by their residents. But there are hopes that the current financial crisis could actually help revive the ruins.
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"It's the biggest sadness you can imagine. It's sad that it's abandoned in this way", says Jose Collazo, the last resident of a ghost village. In recession-hit Spain there are almost 3,000 abandoned villages. With an ageing population and almost 25% unemployment, local governments are desperate for any boost to their economy. Whole villages are now up for sale, and locals hope that foreign buyers might boost the depressed economy. At a time when many Spaniards feel that capitalism has failed them, the rural idyll of self-sufficiency has never seemed so attractive.
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I know someone who bought a house in such a village in France, half abandoned. Problem is the locals will leave or die, the baker, the butcher, the carpenter, and you will have to travel a long way to get daily food. Even a chat with the neighbors becomes impossible.
At the end he owned the entire village and had many houses restored, but he got old and wanted to have city life, close to health care, family and friends, easy access to shops, so he returned to his former homeland.
Nobody wants to pay for the houses, nobody wants to rent them, and almost all work and investment was lost, only happy memories of good times when the village was still alive.
this is the curse of these places... when you have no amenities left you also must leave
@@SuperOuuuuu less-so amenities, moreso socialization. When you experience abject despair seeing a child kindles hope and joy in even the most jaded individual
This must be the saddest thing I red all year
Galician villages aren’t abandoned due to the economic crisis. They’ve been abandoned for many decades due to people emigrating to South America, Switzerland and London, or moving to cities in Galicia - A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Pontevedra, Lugo and Ourense.
The estate agent forgot to mention the reason houses in the countryside are abandoned is because there is no work, only self-sufficient farming. Also, you can’t get a phone signal, the nearest supermarket is 25Km away, and you have dig a well because mains water doesn’t have enough pressure.
perfect place for remote communities like in Argentina or Paraguay ; Funny how european people migrate in flocks to those far away places when you have everythign you need on the european continent. Maybe Spain should create "deregulation" zones in order to attract the ones who just want to be left alone , not be forced vaxx , school their own kids etc, the eco people, the catholic people etc... they 're is definitely a market there.
There's a great deal of galician poetry centered around the waves of emigration that took place in the 19th and 20th centuries
These villages aren't abandoned because of the crisis. They were abandoned 60 years ago or even more as the people began the exodus to the cities. Most of them are in places of very difficult access without modern roads even.
It would be difficult to live without easy access to medical care. Just hope that you do not get injured or have a stroke. Without internet, you would not know what is going on in modern times.
Even better. So the hordes of "refugees" and freeloaders in Europe won't be so tempted.
It's like in any other place. Not all the people can have a Medic center or a hospital near them. Anyway, there is always some town near with facilities and for urgencies, the hospitals have even helicopters. The Healthcare in Spain is quite good. Spain has the highest life expectancy in the world just behind Japan.
About internet, there are different ways to get a connection. The local company "Mundo R" offer access through satellite if there is not a Telephone line. It isn't Africa. The villages are abandoned but must of them have electricity and telephone lines. You just need to repair the house and have a car to go to the supermarket or shopping. The big advantage is the nature, the coast is near, really wonderful and prices of foods clothes and everything much cheaper than the rest of Spain.
I'm gonna tell you a secret. Most of the Spaniards with money usually come to the south Galician coast in the summer. They get use to have their houses or apartments there. They escape from the hot weather and the crowded places of the Mediterranean sea. Softer weather and an awesome gastronomy...
The flying passenger drone technology is going to eliminate that problem. This is already being tested.
+yaimavol Do you mean to carry people to hospitals or Healthcare centers? Those drones are too slow for that, at least for now. Nowadays it is better using helicopters. Anyway, if its development is successful It would be very welcome of course.
I miss Galicia. I lived in Santiago de Compostela and El Ferrol for a year. I miss the people, the festivals with bagpipes, the wooden shoes in the gardens, people in the park playing chess, old men in their boinas, children laughing and playing, fisherman working on their nets, the fish markets, people speaking gallego. I miss it all, except bacalao. They are tough, hard working people with hearts of gold, salt of the earth. Takes a while to get to know them, but time well spent.
We bought a place in Panton 7 months ago. We have local craftsmen restoring it to become a beautiful home and B&B. We left Australia, where property prices are just ludicrous. All up, our home, with 1/3 acre of orchard and garden, once restored, will have cost us around $Au350.000. The same type of house back home would have cost us more than $Au1million. We love Galicia, her people, the culture and the life. I would encourage anyone who is coming to make sure that you respect the place though, and don't turn it into some hellish ex-pat colony.
Happy to see Aussies in Galicia!
Oohh woow that’s amazing. I’m South African , i was just telling my partner that I would love to buy a house here
@@ChooseU4ever Do it. Keep this lovely part of the world alive.
@@ChooseU4ever don't give up the dream! I bought a house here for less than €20k. Needs work but even once restored it should be cheaper than most places in Spain. I know a South African chap that just moved here last year too. Galicia is full of beautiful old homes waiting to be fixed up and given new life!
Yes, as an Aussie you well know the saying, ' when in Rome'. Or when in Espanol. I have a couple of Spanish Australian work mates. Great people.
Catalan ❤️ my heart breaks whenever I think about Spain 🇪🇸 it is so difficult being away from home.
Tiny mod
😂😂😂
OMG, I have spent 2 years of my childhood there and it is breath taking. Galicia, you can count on me, I am heading to your country!!! Best Wishes xxx
Galicia is a very intriguing region in Spain. I liked it a lot when I went there for a short holiday
It is a very mysterious place indeed with very interesting celtic culture.
Stfu
@@joshbanker8743 Who are you talking to?
@@vivianlunsford4052 not you !
Uh, this happens in every country in every land. In the USA, we have a ton of abandoned towns. Corporations run everything so essentially people can't farm. Megastores like Walmart put the small business owners out of business. That means most funds are being shipped out of state and not staying in the local economy.
Your lack of economic sense is powerful.
USA is a shithole with too much capitalism and not enough socialism
One Life Vlogs, there empty villages are the result of socialism. Some people still believe socialism is the way forward, unbelievable.
Joshua Leonardo the Joshua tree. 🌳
Joshua Leonardo , It is called fascism
Makes me so sad....left Spain back in the mid 60s....I come fm El Bierzo, next door in leon....and the abandonment is not as extreme...but we are basically the same people...my father and younger brother rest in a cemetery in a town kind like the one shown in the video...but still got aunts, and cousins....the funny thing is that they seem not to notice how the life is seeping away...
My heart fails when I think of the stupendous hard work that went into building these now deserted houses. If they could only be restored.
I have tears to cry I am 56 my wife is 47and Iand her walked the Camino Frances last year from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and walked it all through Galicia. it brings me back in tears how we saw these old structures from a cornea. all these places are the same as we walk past through and stayed one small village before you get to the Cruz of for people are rebuilding back was once abandoned bringing life back to it. build an Albergue. those who are walking the Camino. I and my wife will go back there once we will get again financially set. we just bought a house late fall and we will save money to rebuild my wife solarium. my wife father passed away shelives with us and her son
It astounds me that a beautiful location like this by the ocean and in a temperate climate would be abandoned.
Greetings Victor Casado. I strongly suspected the government had something to do with it. Governments do indeed have a sinister way of "actively working against people's goals." Joel Salatin, America's most famous farmer, wrote a book about it called "Everything I want to do is illegal."
Look at the bigger picture. It's not the government. Its the freemason n their nwo agenda
californicators would pay several millions for similar location on the calif coast.
@@goognamgoognw6637 You're 100% correct. The real market they need to tap into is the permaculture crowd. No commercialism.
Everywhere the same: no jobs. I’m from Galicia and I can tell you it’s beautiful. My area is well populated, near the city of Vigo...but I’m living in Germany.
I could live here all my life. Such a beautiful place. Fresh breeze and natural scenery all year round.
Manish. You DID hear about no electricity....AND HARSCH Winters.
Highly fascinating, but living without electricity, sewage systems, internet...only few people can deal with such remoteness and lack of comfort.
I can do all those people hinge myself it's not hard .
Fascinating! My father was born in a village in Galicia and lived most of his childhood there before relocating to La Coruna. I have to show him this documentary. Thanks for sharing.
amazing life such a luxury better than town less stressful
They should build bed, and breakfast motels/hotels. Update churches for weddings. So city folk can go on holidays enjoying nature, and getting away from the stress of city life.
Eco / Farm Tourism is their only hope...Bike Trips , Hostels, Music, Local Food, Wool , Meat, etc etc...
I hope the people that started these types of business there have survived corona lockdowns. Alot of vacation destinations had very few tourists this last summer.
Yeah, they do that already in some places. And then the villages are ruined and become some tourist's idea of a "Disney Spain." No thanks. They need ot be repopulated with Spanish people who cannot afford to live in the Disney villages that have been created for tourists.
Maybe they don't want to.
@@heathsavage4852 👍🏻👍🏻
Beautiful places. The people are fabulous too! This type of living is exactly what many people want now, because they are learning they have to be able to be self-sufficient.
I would go there in a heartbeat if I would be given a small plot (decrepid house). I have the skills necessary to make a remote off the grid village self-sufficient... second I see no reason why large remote areas cannot be revitalised if the land is sold for very small fees (1000-2000 euro) paid into a local rebuild foundation and not into the coffers of the people who left or the Government. Local economies are only rebuild if the money stay locally.
Sold? Rather given away. Your presence would mean the income for local government [taxes], jobs & profits for local businesses, etc.
@@sieciech2514 true 👍🏻
As long as I have Wifi I can live there.
Looks beautiful and I can learn Spanish.
its a celtic area learn galish and spanish
James Byrne no not Gaelic but close! The language is called Gallego. It has some similarities.
Everybody uses Spanish there. Galician has a bit of a Portuguese twist in it.
Basque and catalan are spoken here!
UPDATE: Original comment above was to a now deleted remark from someone who was mistaken saying that the area in the video was of basque country, and incorrectly stated the regional language spoken.
The video referenced is of Galicia, west of basque region where vasco is spoken (due to its proximity to barcelona, one can find catalan,spoken too), and barcelona where catalan is spoken. All regions of spain speak the national language of castellano.
AbsintheMoon XIII 😎
It's hard to live with no income?,..it sad to see THIS,.. because,this is happening all over the world.
You only can attract retirement folk with income flow !
I’m Galician and it breaks my heart to watch my hometown slowly dying, only my my grandparents remain at the house. But what is there to do? I have dreams and passions, I don’t want to farm a small parcel of land, I want electricity, friends, bars and a stable job. A lot of the people that says they want to buy a place here need to understand how hard live is in a remote town. It makes me really sad
With Solar being more practical you don't have to go without electricity. My grandparents use to live in the mountains here in the US...no electricity..but they had a generator (back b4 solar). My best memories is sitting there with them next to oil lamps and telling stories and playing cards hehe.
actually, in the new normal all the advantages of the city are gone and there's no reason to remain urban, but go rural. there's no more cultural activity, bars, clubs, cinemas, you name it, however you have repression and police state, which in the countryside isn't felt nearly as much, while you can cultivate your own crops. so go back to your roots and don't look back. i'm replying to you in english so others can have it easier to understand. in slovenia we have similar problems like you over there. galicia is truly a special place and i wish one day i could return and explore it further. un abrazo
@@bolek-trolek True and the West is in decline in many places. US large cities are becoming homeless camps and havens for drug use, while the rule of law breaks down and nobody does anything about it. There is a certain parasitic class of the population. People who just want to drop out of life and take no responsibility They can survive off the largesse of a large city population, but they wouldn't survive a week in a village like this.
Have more babies. Stop destroying yourselves.
Farming will be the only job to secure your life in the future. AI and robots will take the place of humans jobs
I have recently found out that my family ancestors hail from Galicia through Andalucía. Now I can see why they left to live across the Ocean. It is very sad in the end.
11:30 when the neighbors came, he may change his mind and prefer to live without neighbors xD
Nice place for 9k it's a steal. You have to grow vegetables and go fishing. Simple life😊
Very romantic idea, but wrong. What will happen if you break a leg in such a place? And winters are really long there!
Are you the real estate agent, by the way?
These villages and old houses are beautiful and yes, $9k is a steal but you'll probably have to spend another $20-25K to make that property habitable :-(
$9K for ruins? Why not pay me $9K for my garden shed in my backyard? LOL
They´ve got universal healthcare over there. As long as you are Spanish it doesn´t matter if you are unemployed, they will take care of you at any public hospital.
This is a beautiful area. I would love to be able to restore something like this. ❣️
This Caurel mountain range area is the most abrupt, rough terrain and has the harshest climate in the autonomous community.
Let´s not forget that we are talking about the westernmost area of Europe. Snow and heat, That area is well known for its isolation and the old slate houses with conical thatched roofs. You need a good reason for going back and live in a moor.
im heading to north Portugal next week, in the north and galicia theres hundreds villages with houses you can occupy with fresh water, and land you can use, there is florest not like in the south, and the ppl are friendlier
I HATE spanish people. I prefer the MUCH FRIENDLIER Portuguese people!!!
@@ToiYeuYAHWEH spanish people also hate you too,,,,,,,
@@djktanima2097 FULL INDEPENDENCE FOR GALICIA!!!
FULL INDEPENDENCE FOR CATALONIA!!
FULL INDEPENDENCE FOR BASQUE COUNTRY!!!
YOUR HATE BECOMES YOU ... LOVE TO ALL REYNALDO
@@ToiYeuYAHWEH Bruh you just look pathetic being so salty
Spain in general is such a beautiful country. Why not start a living in Galicia? But this documentary does not tell the real costs of rebuilding these ruins and connecting to grids of electricity etc. On the other hand costs of living in Spain are remarkably lower than in other European countries. It's worth thinking it over.
cottage industrys is what they need,communications is also a must internet,
If you spend some time in the area, it's understandable why people didn't stay. No infrastructure, no economy, difficult access. Even for someone whose work is online, you have to think twice about whether it's sustainable. It's _very_ different than rural areas most of us think of in the rest of Europe and the US. If you have a child, for example, you have to think of how long it would take to get out and reach urgent medical care if something went seriously wrong. Even for basic goods like grocery, it can be an arduous undertaking depending on the particular location. People didn't just leave because they wanted to, and they didn't just leave recently due to this or that crisis. The circumstances they had dealt with for many years, and many decades ago, compelled them all to abandon their families' life there.
That is exactly what we think of as rural in America, except we have half a continent full of it...
@@peterodonnell6386 Actually, Americans will describe places like Iowa as rural but there are small towns with basic services like fuel and a small supplies/variety store every few miles with good roads maintained by state or county. This is a very different setting with none of that. I’m sure there are places more like this in the desert or mountains or Dakotas somewhere, maybe, but the same concerns would apply to a family in those areas as well.
@@ReflectedMiles Understandable, I see what you mean. However, even if there are good roads but two hours of driving between resources, I would still consider that rural, and I do believe there are plenty of places as even you just described. Many moreso in Canada, probably. My own home is somewhere along that continuum of ruralness. At the same time, all of Spain would easily fit inside of Alaska, or probably even Texas, so I'd be willing to bet that if there are still such rural places in Western Europe, you will find plenty of them in a nation known for its sparsely populated inner regions.
@@ReflectedMiles And, Galicia itself is rather small... to compare saying there may be some in the deserts, mountains, or Dakotas of the U.S. would again be showing that there are many... and as I say, Alaska is about as rural as it gets.
@@peterodonnell6386 Right, but try to find young families in the Alaskan wilderness. There are many in the “wilderness” around the towns and cities, I’m sure, but very few who stay for a decade or more where it is a 2-hour boat ride to the nearest access for fuel or flour. I don’t know how it is now, but when I was young there were places in the mountains of Nevada that had been abandoned like this for the same reasons. The main thing is not size but ease of access, which then impacts whether you have neighbors to rely on, too, even if they’re a mile away. Even in the Dakotas, there probably aren’t many places that are two hours from any basic services. In Iowa, it was always like 30 or 45 mins. tops.
So many unemployed young people in Spain, the government should be giving money and help to the people to rebuilt and restore the area while they work in agriculture instead of trading for the big corporations who are destroying culture and countries with no future.
Gil Stead well said
Spanish gouverment doesn't give a shit for the Spanish people, specially the actual government, they are from the far right and they are only interested in corruption and money for their politician. Spain is sunk
BOOM.
Socialism outta nowhere, lets see if things change.
But I dont think so.
The answer to mass unemployment is to leave the European Union and work towards self-sufficiency. All large countries should do this.
Im pretty sure that PM in Spain are Leftist. so i dont know where you came up with idea they were far right . corruption and far leftist are combo for life no science there. for simple Prime M. of Spain is Pedro Sánchez and he is an Soicalist which are leftist.
Spain simply dont have the cash to give . Spain has so many illegal immgrants,people would stuck to the system with glue and drag it down so quick.
I would love to move to Spain but Spain has recently been voting so much to Left with Soicalism. i dont want to buy and start an life were Soicalist control and tax the shit out of me.
is really really sad, i have a house on one of the ongoing extinct villages, my father family lived there for generations, they use to be one the nobel houses there back in the middle ages (now we have no title only the
coat of arms), is super quiet, and beautifull as most of these places are, and you can still see things from the medieval/roman era like bridges, acuaducts, old mils and snake shaped like roads, sourrounded by nature (a kinda hobbit town xd).
If only we could make work come back there. it would such a nice place to live, cities are ovecrowed, noisy, polluted, and massivly expensive to live on, in villages that are still on use with modern roads and all that life is amazing, if having a workplace, wifi on your house, and bike/motrocylce, you are incredible free there, no stress, no noise, no modern overoffended people, yeah live is a bit harder but is totally worth it.
I'm in a similar situation,but the fabulous house that I inherited from my grandparents is in Italy. It was originally a monastery and it is in perfect condition as my parents had the builders in for 3 years. The peace,the magnificent views would convince anyone to leave the rat race of the cities. Eventually I'll have to sell it as I'm now living in Spain.😭
@@angelaberni8873 you can always rent it as a rural house, many people from cities go to this places on weekends and holidays and rent this kind of houses. You will need just someone in italy that can give them the keys or set up a electronic key.
how will you manage with no services?
I wonder if there's been any progress on the towns profiled, especially the one on the coast?
I'm thinking a few of the larger villages in places like this could return to prosperity due to recent technology changes.
- Growth in 'knowledge economy" jobs and increasing capabilities of the internet make it so working people aren't so closely tied to big city centers.
- Such towns would require good fiberoptic internet support as well as decent enough roads to get around without it being difficult.
- Would require local people and government to work the issues and fund the necessary infrastructure,
It all seems doable to me, especially if land prices in these areas are of excellent value.
I loved it. Will see if I can learn a little more about these villages. Visiting them is in my to-do list already.
Galicia should have sent out word a decade ago at least! Literally thousands of Celtic people in America would be interested in "returning home" after over 500 years of living in the USA - the growing of apples, re-creation of the bag-pipe tradition, etc..
It would take the people of Galicia to realize the people who would like to recolonize this part of Spain are not rich, by any means, but educated, with lots of good ideas and with some kind of trade deal with Europe, the apples alone would bring the place back to life.
onlyceltic1 Lol, not all Euro-Americans are Celts. Large influx of Eastern Europeans make up at least 30% of White America, then there are: British, French, Dutch, Germans, Scandinavians. Smaller portions Italians and Greeks. Celts numbers dwindled with the advance of Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Visigoths. No one European can actually call themselves Celts anymore.
That is not entirely true. Europeans (Western Europeans) have a strong celtic "footprint" in their DNA.
BOLLOCKS!,.. try telling that to the Irish,Scots&Welsh,the Basque region and Brittany ppl ,ever been in USA on st Patricks day?,and half the Brits of the usa you refer to are Celts also ,many being Scots or Welsh, the Welsh btw were recently screened and proved to be the purest first Britons, the English are not "REAL" Britons as england did not exist when it was" Britain-Britania"
onlyceltic1 apples from Mexico are cheaper.. unfortunately
Ideal for cider production.
Looks like the village where I was born in Asia,. People moved for jobs and opportunities. There are too many houses abandoned and decaying. The 2 story house above my grandparent's house is about to fall. Hopefully, it will not damage my grandparent's house when it falls to the ground.
What country is this?
I would love to be part of the experience of village renovation , while keeping the fundamental structures as close in design as they once were. There is something nostalgic, yet inviting about Galicia. Cordial greetings from New York.
WOW WHAT A SPECIAL PLACE I REALLY DO HOPE YOU GO BACK AND TAKE MORE PICTURES OF THIS PLACE ID SO LOVE TO SEE MORE
Old village I like the stone , nature around , I am Montagnard indigenous .
I would love to move to such a place and fix things up. I would have creative projects forever. A dream.
the situation in the UK is the opposite. There isnt enough old rural settlements to go around so their prices are high
6:40 bravo to these people who instead of going homeless they are building a possible future.
How amazing to live there. What a peaceful life that would be.
It would be great if the universities and colleges could set up programs for the students in architecture and engineering, surveying,farming ect to rejuvenate these beautiful places. They could buy the buildings and land, do them up to re sell. Then maybe these institutions wouldn’t have charge so much to attend them!
4 factors why:
* Industrialization (gradually diminished villages as young people went for factory jobs)
* Professionalization (after WWII, becoming an office worker exploded)
* Decreased birthrate (for career development, in cities of course)
* Increased financial stress (cost of living in cities)
Recruit young Asians from the South Pacific to learn Spanish, live in and rebuild medieval towns. The birthrate will not increase among Spanish youth.
Such a beautiful place. There are tens of millions, or maybe even hundreds of millions of Latin Americans who have partial Spanish heritage, we should have first priority to migrate back to Spain if we choose to! Most of us are of Spanish ancestry and Catholic. So it would be easy to assimilate to Spain.
No Jobs , No services . Infrastructure falling apart . Yes sounds lovely .
Don’t forget to mention social isolation.
@@annephillips1870 True Social isolation . What have the Roman's ever given us ? :)
Homestay program for tourists may help sustain the old structures.
What's the name of the village the big lady is trying to save, at the end of the film @7:56? "Ocuto" or something.
As remote working is becoming more and more feasible and accepted, as long as they can get decent reasonably priced internet to these area I could see them starting to build populations again. Lots of people would love to live in places like this, the question is just how can they earn a decent long here.
This place looks like a paradise. Grow food and live stock and it’s a perfect life.
You will grow hungry. There are good reasons people left. The ground is rocky and pasture have high gradient. Bad roads. No sewers. No running water. No gas. No electricity. Phone coverage if you are lucky.
The houses are damp in the winter.
the first town was used in a movie called " The Skin of the Wolf"
Remote work would BE good to revive This places with an effort to improve infrastructhre. Young people would go there. I know i would
How many kilometers is the nearest hospital?
How many kilometers is the nearest supermarket?
**Beautiful** countryside! Just stunning!
Give people the property free and they might be able to renovate it. Allow them to grow their own food on theirnown land and they can survive and possibly create an income.
Yes thats only option. im pretty sure few people wants to pay reasonable amount for tear down houses out of stones.
there is no way i would try to fix such houses. i would just leave them by and build new one next to it and have the old one as storage.
...cycled thru here on the Camino. Really the most impressive part. So uniquely Galician...
Love this place, it so beautiful and tranquelle. Hope someone will deveolp it, so people can come back. Good Luck!
Good morning are you single
An englishman living in galicia, is a inmigrant in spain, not an expat.
For spain he is an immigrant. For the reporter he is an expat.
@@svampae For the reporter should be a migrant.
Yeah, the so-called, good old days: no electric, no AC, no heat, no running water, killing your own food, bad roads, no emergency help, no phone, no toilet but the ground, no mail delivery...yeah, the good old days...i want'em back!
It is not as you think. You have a medical center less than 15 minutes away, you only need a mobile phone, in an emergency they send a medical helicopter. Yes there is electricity, only that they are disconnected. The bathrooms are connected to a septic tank. The water is potable and one of the best in Spain, you can have it from a spring. You can have Wi-Fi in many of those places, telephone lines arrive, what you will not have is fiber optic, although there are towns that have it. It is not a country so backward. If you contribute to Social Security for your work you have free health care, one of the best in the world, highlighted in 2019 as the healthiest country. So do not be scared. A greeting.
@@AHD2105 No, they would, not I1 The heck with the good ole' days!
@@JuanGarcia-qi4ze But nowadays health passport or forced vaccinations? If not, I would consider moving to one of these villages.
My Captain lives here in Galacia and la Coruna..it's beautiful place
Thank you ...
It's so beutiful. It should be restored
abandoned ?, give me a bit of land, and I'll be living there
You may buy the village but the land... that's another story, it probably belongs already to some eucaliptus planter or some Polish industrial pig farmer.
@@LuisAldamiz and I believe they're not open to negotiations of low price ☹️.
@@cleitondecarvalho431 - The eucaliptus are more important than the people. That's the logic of Capitalism: you are worth what you can pay.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this. I wonder how one would go about buying one of these houses though.
Ha! Well, Spain is killing itself by not having ay children. Also, I'm a Christian priest.
These are interesting ideas. But you have a problem. Every government you elect, whether right or left, continues to allow in millions of people from the Muslim world and Africa every year. So while I actually sympathize with your point of view, the people you elect don't.
And again, may I mention that I'm in fact a Christian priest, and fluent in Spanish at that.
Thank you for your response. Well, I think you are right about most things, and especially about the failure of democracy to address the issue of mass-immigration. I think that Spain should stop mass-immigration from the Muslim world. But it will never happen because, well, you explained it. Democracy just doesn't work.
En cuanto a mi propio grupo étnico no deseo conversar. Pero, si quieres que el espiral demográfico de la derrota se reversa en España lo que necesitéis es mas fe cristiana, no menos. Una sociedad secular es una comunidad sin relación a lo transcendental, y por lo tanto una sociedad que lentamente anda matándose a si misma. España será cristiana o musulmana. No hay otra opción.
By the way. it happens also in any rural part of northern Spain. In cCastilla, in Aragón, in Cataluña...
and Portugal and France ......et al
Yes, it happens everywhere, but in Spain is worse because people dont go to live in small towns, they rather go to urban centers like A Coruña, Vigo, Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona...
Restoring a ruin is more problematic than using its stones to start building afresh.
That's sad all those abandoned houses & buildings .I would love to live there with that ocean so close it's beautiful .If I could hurry up & hit that lottery I'm waiting on I'd done been on my way to Spain lol.
What's more sad is that these villages are not in the middle of nowhere rounded by tall and abrupt mountains. Galicia is a place of low hills. the highest mountain is about 6000ft. All these villages could be very well connected and many small companies could grow there. As a man says, it's all a matter of finding work there.
They would all go mad living up there. Thats why the locals left so they can get to the shops and have water in the taps.
Truck out a prefab (if possible) metal roof and solar panels an inverter or two and about 4 batteries for DC and basic 220volt 50hz power. Refrigerators can be run on kerosenes or propane (ask the Amish or Mennonites). Direct DC when possible and for laptops and cell phone batteries and direct DC lighting, etc...Rent power tools and a gasoline generator for the construction and then you'll be just fine for electrical power. Sattilite communication(s) may be necessary or just ask a local.
Build or use and/or repair any cisterns for your garden and maybe even cooking (ask a local). Split the wastewater into gray water and septic tanks and absorption fields.
More later........(04-14-2018)
Robert Smith And simply send a rocket into space to extract minerals from other planets and hydrogen from stars and space. Then build robots and cyborgs to do physical work and nanobots to help change the environment on a molecular scale. Then, use a time machine to go to the past to get decent furniture.
More later .....(08-03-2019)
www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/galicia/2016/05/19/tonto-enamoro-galicia/0003_201605H19P60994.htm
One day I will move to the town of my parents Dersim. It is similar to Galicia except there is no ocean.
vast spaces of emptiness are also an expression of beauty and exhibit the oneness of truth! God is beautiful because his absence and presence coincide in such spaces. This is my philosophy. I would not mind living in such a place to rekindle my thoughts.
Is it possible for you to include the spelling of the names of the villages that are abandoned in the description of the video? If that's possible, thank you so much!!
they are all in Galicia you may find what your looking for online
Why not fill the houses with Spaniards who are facing financial trouble? They can rent out the buildings for a lower price and start helping our own people.
In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands of South America under Spaniards, and return it to rightful owners indigenous Native American people, and bring back those Spanish folks to motherland Spain, such as these abandoned villages. Remember, notorious Slavery as well as Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is this another notorious Colonization still lingering on? Google 'Continents of America is Not a New World/China Daily' for more.
blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=820652
@ellis holden
Like I said, the true of the matter is that indigenous Native People would forever be the subject of scapegoat, and victimized by the Colonizers of their lands, as long as they occupy those rich bountiful lands in order to justify their occupation. In other word, the Colonizers, are 'Living in Denial'. blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=820652
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@El loco holandes errante
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That's beautiful. When I retire I'm going to move to Spain and live there. I visited Spain circa 1995, I felt at home. I am Mexican American, my parents were from Guadalajara.
So who owns the land - the bank? No one just walks off like that .
Mr. Jones
Excellent questions about property ownership. If you find out, please keep me informed.
There is no bank. They probably belong to state
@@ShidaiTaino most likely because it was abandoned and no one paid the taxes its now state owned. When many of these houses were abandoned people inherented property from generation to generation. If you didn't inherit it was still super cheap to buy compared to now. You could just save money and buy a house with in a few years.
Nice place, sad young people had to move out due to no jobs/opportunities.
IVE SEEN THIS VIDEO BEFORE IT LOOKS SO QUAINTING AND MAGICAL ID LOVE TO LIVE THERE
I think it is a very good idea to go back to the countryside, as it is probably the only way to maybe get out of the chaos we are in now. If communities get together and rebuilt this towns (like there are already examples in Spain) make their own food ecc. we are not longer so much depending on work and money... as anyway you cannot eat computers, cars, celephones ecc.... and if a lot of Europeans would go back to the countryside, if it got "En Vouge" than probably even the refugees wouldl think, well I have my land here, so why should i go to work on the land of others in Europe...... I know this is a very big Vision.... but without visions there is no change.....
Running away from the system just weakens your constituents' political stake within the system... And then unruly regulations will soon find their way into your life, sooner or later.
If theyre abandoned who gave him the right to sell them?
I suppose one man's junk is another man's treasure
Depends on a case by case basis, but in a lot of cases, the local council (which is not going to be a lot "local", it is going to be the nearest town that covers all the villages in the area) will be the owner, if only due to not paying any taxes for the last 40 years.
Wow so much history
I love abandoned places because it’s a blank canvas for creative minds.🦋
The Spanish civil war did much to de-populate the area, General Francisco Franco, Spains dictator from 1936 to 1975 was a Galician, he ruthlessly suppressed all forms of nationalism, the economy; except for ocean fishing, the language and its people as he tried to do to the Basque country and its population. Spains civil war, as do most civil wars, tended to put the ecomomy into a form of suspended animation, Now Galicia is autonomous and industry has started to return, prior to that the Galician people left for greener pastures.
Actually most of those towns and villages are empty because their citizens emigrated to bigger towns and cities with more job opportunities.
Joder, macho. Menuda sarta de gilipolleces. Los gallegos empezaron a emigrar a finales del XIX. A ver si ahora la "culpa" va a ser de Franco. Y la siguiente ola migratoria que acabó con los pueblos en media España fue la de los sesenta, con el desarrollo económico. La gente normal no quiere vivir en el coño del mundo. Prefiere las ciudades, con todos los servicios y el ocio a su alcance. Que los de Podemos decís muchas chorradas sin sentido.
The Great General Franco of Spain, was a Nationalist. Supported by two other Nationalist Leaders in Europe against the progressive or socialist elements within the country, who were supported by and were potentially Communists.
In fact you are seeing the same conflict and division across the political spectrum around the world now.
Damn give me one of those villages and a decent women and we'd repopulate it and live of the land.
This would be the dream.
That's what i was thinking the entire time watching this
me too xD
Haha good luck finding a woman like that in this instargram age..
Spjutfisk 123 you do realize that plan involves incest, right?
FULL INDEPENDENCE FOR GALICIA!!!
FULL INDEPENDENCE FOR CATALONIA!!
FULL INDEPENDENCE FOR BASQUE COUNTRY!!!
Spain is dying so why die with it? LOL
Reminds me, I have some painting to do on MY crib this weekend.
We all die , religions have been exposed institutions that offer no genuine hope ( government and universities offer only temporary solutions). People are then understandably self obsessed and choose to have no or few children even after moving to Cities. Their fellow countrymen have no sympathy, reserving that emotion for a equally New but equally empty new belief system called internationalism . Where there’s peace there’s no security and where there’s security there’s often no real peace. It’s the worlds new dominant reality and Spain is no exception.
Some are livable but a lot are just returning to the ground, just ramshackle of rock
I dont know. Even if they were brought to "life" they would still look and feel spooky. You need more colours and lots of people to make it feel alive. All I see is darkness, coldness and solitude. Perfect for a horror movie.
Spooky indeed...actually your comment reminds me this film. it was filmed in the same region.
www.imdb.com/title/tt5816712/
You have obviously never been here. It is a wonderful place. The old villages have a beauty all their own.
Colors everywhere in Galicia.
Its oceanic with heavy rainfall and cloudy. Temperatures are mild, similar of Portland Oregon.
I love to renovate one of this as a summer home.
It's certainly a very beautiful area though these Villages need a lot of work no question about that but I think there's more to it than meets the eye but I have to keep looking it's my dream to find a small village that I can retire in it looks lovely
i am indian and i want to live there. i am exhausted by city life. i don't need luxuries i need happiness and peaceful life.
People from rural Spain DON'T like strangers. It's very hard to buy a house there because normally the last neighbords speak to the heir to stop the sale. The heirs sometimes prefers to lose money and sell to the family of the people who still live there. If you want to buy something you will have to buy a whole deserted town. I've belonged to some Spanish neo-rural onganizatons, and it's well know that people from little towns only wants Galician people in their neighbordhood. It easier to buy in South France specially in the center. La Dordogne is specially beautifull and not so expensive.
These pristine medieval settlements could be great for filming _"Galician Noir"_ or other fantasy and historical movies / shows
Gotta have some from of electricity solar, wind - to attract any people who enjoy even simple modern conveniences
Ya you could send refugees there, but what would they eat. Where would they get the supplies to build new houses. What about schooling for the kids. What about entertainment. A hard life it would be. Many would not survive.
Many will be used to that easy of life anyway
Yes I would too if I could
Those villages are not really abandoned. They belong to people that simply don't want to live there because of the poor standard of living just there, at the back of beyond. By the way, Galicia's economic growth has been over 3% in the past three years. There are people that keeps on talking of crisis but it ended some few years ago as a matter of fact.
My FIL grew up in one of these villages. They left after WWII for Brazil. He remembers never starving and freezing in the winter.