{"id":49966,"date":"2023-01-04T23:13:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49966"},"modified":"2023-01-10T23:43:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:43:26","slug":"a-ghost-town-located-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-in-a-deep-valley-of-asturias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/04\/a-ghost-town-located-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-in-a-deep-valley-of-asturias\/","title":{"rendered":"A ghost town located in the middle of nowhere in a deep valley of Asturias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently saw here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/29\/a-spectacular-tour-of-two-ghost-towns-and-old-trenches-in-catalonia\/\">the effects of depopulation in rural Catalonia<\/a>, and today we are going to see them in another region of Spain: the Principality of Asturias.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/23\/asturias-a-beautiful-century-old-school-that-is-preserved-as-it-was-in-1970\/\">Asturias: a beautiful century-old school that is preserved as it was in 1970<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/29\/a-spectacular-tour-of-two-ghost-towns-and-old-trenches-in-catalonia\/\">A spectacular tour of two ghost towns and old trenches in Catalonia<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>As in other regions of the northern half of Spain, <strong>the rural areas of Asturias have recorded a constant exodus to the cities for decades<\/strong>, parallel to a progressive aging of the population. The result has been <strong>the abandonment of many mountain villages<\/strong>, such as the one that the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@hilux_aventura\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilux Aventura<\/a> showed yesterday in an interesting video that it runs through a beautiful and deep valley in Asturias until it reaches <strong>a town located in the middle of nowhere<\/strong>, with large houses built on a hillside and currently in ruins:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"En este PUEBLO ABANDONADO las CASAS eran GIGANTES!!\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0zpd8MVLzkE?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><strong>Watching this video explains to a large extent the reasons for their abandonment.<\/strong> The town was very isolated, so any medical emergency could have fatal consequences. Everything seems to indicate that <strong>this town had livestock and beekeeping as sources of wealth<\/strong>, but in an environment like this, we are talking about a hard life. According to a reader in the comments, <strong>a fire ended up marking the fate of this town<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52607804833_c79c142277_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some captures of the video. <strong>The road that leads to the village is really beautiful<\/strong>. Here we see the part of the opposite slope. According to the author of the video, it would be about 5 kilometers of walking from the nearest road to the town, through the valley.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52607804823_217221b2d3_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upon reaching the town, you can see the first houses in ruins.<\/strong> Some are already badly destroyed, indicating many years of neglect.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52607307026_2fedb31da0_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the houses are better preserved and are unusually large for houses in a mountain village.<\/strong> As the video's author points out in the description, <em>\"usually the houses were smaller for keep warm.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52607733350_a9e8048150_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is at least one house that seems to be still somewhat preserved.<\/strong> On the right we can see its h\u00f3rreo, which was a building built at a certain distance from the ground to store food and protect it from wild animals and humidity. <strong>The one we see here is a typical granary from Asturias<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2016\/06\/28\/combarro-un-precioso-pueblo-que-debes-visitar-si-te-acercas-a-la-ria-de-pontevedra\/\">those in Galicia are longer<\/a> (with the exception of those located in the areas closest to Asturias, such as the Sierra del Courel).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently saw here the effects of depopulation in rural Catalonia, and today we are going to see them in another region of Spain: the Principality of Asturias.<\/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":[12876,16877],"tags":[1954,11462],"class_list":["post-49966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-ruins","tag-asturias","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49966"}],"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=49966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}