Lately there is a lot of talk about \"the emptied Spain\", the part of the country that has been depopulated due to the constant exodus from the countryside to the cities.<\/p>\n
An extreme example of this exodus is the ghost town of Villacreces, in the municipality of Santerv\u00e1s de Campos (Valladolid).<\/strong> The history of this town dates back to the Middle Ages. In the 19th century it was a small town, with a few dozen inhabitants. It had 130 neighbors in the middle of the 20th century, who lived from agriculture and livestock.<\/strong> The town had its own school and a church. It had its own mayor until 1974, when, due to the loss of inhabitants, it became part of Santerv\u00e1s. Its last neighbors left Villacreces in 1981.<\/strong> The last living villager was a woman, Regina M\u00e9ndez Torbado, who died in December 2020<\/a> at the venerable age of 100.<\/p>\n Today most of the houses in Villacreces, made of adobe, are sadly in ruins.<\/strong> Only the old tower of the Church of San Cipriano, made of brick, and the cemetery remain standing. The Youtube channel Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (if you are not subscribed, I recommend that you notes already) has published an interesting video taking a tour of this ghost town<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n
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