{"id":49902,"date":"2022-12-29T23:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T22:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49902"},"modified":"2023-12-29T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T23:11:13","slug":"a-spectacular-tour-of-two-ghost-towns-and-old-trenches-in-catalonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/29\/a-spectacular-tour-of-two-ghost-towns-and-old-trenches-in-catalonia\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectacular tour of two ghost towns and old trenches in Catalonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the exodus from the countryside to the city, a considerable part of rural Spain has been left abandoned, almost forgotten and in ruins.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/05\/fadricas-touring-the-old-ammunition-depots-of-the-spanish-navy-in-san-fernando\/\">Fadricas: touring the old ammunition depots of the Spanish Navy in San Fernando<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/12\/el-arteal-the-ghost-town-used-by-the-spanish-legion-as-a-training-ground\/\">El Arteal: the ghost town used by the Spanish Legion as a training ground<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the Spanish communities affected by this problem is Catalonia<\/strong>, as shown by the always interesting channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (if you haven't subscribed yet, you can't imagine what you're missing) in his latest video, published today and which takes <strong>a tour of a spectacular mountainous area located visiting two ghost towns:<\/strong> Montesqui\u00fa and Aramunt Viejo (known in Catalan as Aramunt Vell), both in the province of L\u00e9rida. <strong>The path is completed with a visit to the trenches of the Spanish Civil War in Vilanoveta<\/strong>, in the vicinity of another ghost town in Lleida:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pueblos abandonados del Prepirineo: Montesquiu y Aramunt Vell.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aJE05e6uT0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some screenshots of the video, as a minimal preview of the <strong>magnificent landscapes that can be seen on this mountain tour<\/strong>. Below these lines we see the Romanesque hermitage of San Serni, now abandoned and located near the ghost town of Montesqui\u00fa.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52594926633_0df96a18e0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is what remains of Montesqui\u00fa<\/strong>. The town, eminently agricultural, was disadvantaged by the construction of the Talarn reservoir in 1913, when it lost a large part of its irrigation land, which ended up causing its abandonment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52594926673_4713d8ae77_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A beautiful house in Aramunt Viejo <\/strong>. This town is in ruins and uninhabited.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52594832275_10a66e0afa_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It must be said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/tag\/osito-bilbo\/\">my teddy bear Bilbo<\/a> has been very happy with the dedication that the video makes to him, although I think he was even happier to see this little bear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52593926872_31c71758d3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the exodus from the countryside to the city, a considerable part of rural Spain has been left abandoned, almost forgotten and in ruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16877],"tags":[18166,10703,18165,11462,11170,18167],"class_list":["post-49902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-ruins","tag-aramunt-viejo","tag-catalonia","tag-montesquiu","tag-spain","tag-spanish-civil-war","tag-vilanoveta"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:04:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}