{"id":51623,"date":"2023-05-16T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51623"},"modified":"2023-05-18T23:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T21:46:48","slug":"a-town-in-ruins-in-a-remote-part-of-leon-where-only-two-inhabitants-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/16\/a-town-in-ruins-in-a-remote-part-of-leon-where-only-two-inhabitants-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"A town in ruins in a remote part of Le\u00f3n where only two inhabitants remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many places in rural Spain that are becoming depopulated, in many cases due to how isolated they are.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/26\/a-walk-through-a-spectacular-mountain-village-in-asturias-with-its-last-neighbors\/\">A walk through a spectacular mountain village in Asturias with its last neighbors<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/16\/a-magnificent-video-that-covers-the-french-way-of-santiago-in-less-than-5-minutes\/\">A magnificent video that covers the French way of Santiago in less than 5 minutes<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some examples of that depopulated Spain can be found in the province of Le\u00f3n<\/strong>, in the northwest of the community of Castilla y Le\u00f3n, next to Galicia and Asturias. It is a mountainous area and <strong>has some spectacular scenery<\/strong>. There is a town that once had more than 200 residents, of which today only two remain (not counting the dogs and cows). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@hilux_aventura\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilux Aventura<\/a> has dedicated it another interesting video (it is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VIVE SOLO y sin TEL\u00c9FONO! \u00bfLo encontrar\u00e9?\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSCIVI5czFA?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 preview. <strong>The town (the author of the video does not indicate its name) is located in a remote and quite isolated place <\/strong>, accessible only by dirt roads. The landscapes are beautiful, of course.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903705780_c805e2d246_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An aerial view of the town.<\/strong> Except for the houses of its last two inhabitants, everything else is in ruins, including the old school, the church and the bar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903478994_6e7dc45a81_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The main street of the town.<\/strong> Decades of experiences have given way to a silence broken only occasionally by the barking of one of the neighbours' dogs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903768358_9fd2f585c0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The old school.<\/strong> You can see it inside in the video, along with other buildings in this town. It's a shame to see its current state.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52903479004_d10c684ec4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many places in rural Spain that are becoming depopulated, in many cases due to how isolated they are.<\/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":[12876,16885],"tags":[4124,11462],"class_list":["post-51623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-populations","tag-leon","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51623"}],"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=51623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}