{"id":53553,"date":"2023-10-26T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53553"},"modified":"2023-10-28T20:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T18:24:16","slug":"a-spectacular-abandoned-town-in-soria-in-which-only-one-inhabitant-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/26\/a-spectacular-abandoned-town-in-soria-in-which-only-one-inhabitant-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectacular abandoned town in Soria in which only one inhabitant remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With almost 90,000 inhabitants, Soria is the least populated province in Spain and the one with the least population density in the entire country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/16\/a-town-in-ruins-in-a-remote-part-of-leon-where-only-two-inhabitants-remain\/\">A town in ruins in a remote part of Le\u00f3n where only two inhabitants remain<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<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><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, <strong>Soria is one of the oldest provinces in Spain and also in Europe.<\/strong> Of the 183 municipalities that make up this province, 116 have less than 100 inhabitants. <strong>Of its 500 population centers, 115 have less than 10 inhabitants, and 89 towns are already uninhabited.<\/strong> For this reason, Soria is one of the most cited provinces when it comes to talking about what is known today like emptied Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these depopulated areas are the result of <strong>a population exodus from the rural world to the cities<\/strong> that began decades ago. Currently, the city of Soria represents almost 45% of the population of its province. One of the reasons for this exodus, in the case of Soria, is not only the rural character of the province, but also its altitude. <strong>The average altitude of the province exceeds 1,000 meters<\/strong> (the capital is at 1,063), and being far from the sea, that means cold and harsh winters.<\/p>\n<p>This Tuesday, the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@hilux_aventura\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hilux Aventura<\/a> <strong>published an interesting video in which it shows a spectacular abandoned town in Soria<\/strong>, with beautiful stone houses and truly impressive hydraulic works. <strong>Only one person lives permanently in this town<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VIVE SOLO  en un PUEBLO ABANDONADO pero RODEADO DE NATURALEZA\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLzPX6__7Ks?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 some screenshots of the video here, as a minimal preview of the many interesting things that can be seen in it. <strong>Here we see the stone houses of the town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53288199534_81d2d52688_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, <strong>the streets were not paved<\/strong>. A large part of the houses were also built for use in livestock and agricultural work. <strong>The video shows some of these impressive houses from the inside<\/strong>, with traditional architecture that causes amazement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53287825631_e4822511d8_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the parts that impressed me the most in the video is this water pipe<\/strong>, which moved a mill inside, apparently to generate electricity. I encourage you to watch the video because <strong>it shows the vault of this tunnel, made with stone without mortar<\/strong>. A work of traditional engineering that one day, sadly, could be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53288199564_d799ec2eb9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the town church.<\/strong> The tower, of considerable height, has three stone faces and one adobe face. This strange form of construction is its doom: <strong>that tower will end up collapsing sooner or later<\/strong>. We are contemplating the last gleam of splendor of what must have been a bustling town in the past.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53288295015_c77d378f70_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to Hilux Aventura for these videos<\/strong>, which help ensure that these jewels do not fall into oblivion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With almost 90,000 inhabitants, Soria is the least populated province in Spain and the one with the least population density in the entire country.<\/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":[19535,16885],"tags":[11235,10645,11462,18312],"class_list":["post-53553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-populations","tag-castile-and-leon","tag-soria","tag-spain","tag-undisclosed-locations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553"}],"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=53553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}