Tag: depopulation
Over 100 people apply to run a bar in one of the least populated towns in Spain
Andalucia’s second smallest village received over 100 applicants to open the only bar in the town. This followed the Council’s call for hopeful entrepreneurs...
Fire-ravaged Vall d’Ebo area of Spain’s Alicante Province gets cash boost
NEW support of up to €2 million has been promised to the fire-hit Vall d'Ebo area of Alicante Province.
The pledge came on Tuesday in...
Town in Spain’s Castellon province offers €2,000 reward for each birth or adoption in bid to reverse declining population
LA MATA DE MORELLA, a town of just 170 residents, will welcome each new birth or adoption with €2,000, an incentive to boost numbers...
Reality show tackles Spain’s rural depopulation problem with search for entrepreneurs
A NEW reality TV show is launching this October with an aim to tackle depopulation in some of Spain’s most rural villages.
The 20-episode show,...
Town in rural Spain offers free house and job to encourage young families to move
THE town of Griegos in the province of Teruel, in the Aragon region of northeastern Spain has been swamped with applications after offering free...
Spain’s population could halve by end of century while African countries’ soar, says US study
A RECENT study has revealed that Spain's population is expected to halve in 80 years while those in African countries such as Nigeria and...
IN PICS: The stunning and highest villages in Spain at risk of abandonment
Spain’s cliff-hanging enclaves hark back to the times of medieval conquest and even Roman occupation
LONG READ: Meet the collective facing jail after trying to save a Spanish town from extinction as depopulation becomes...
Known as’ the Ground Zero of rural depopulation’, Guadalajara province covers 4,200 km2 but has only 8,900 inhabitants, the equivalent of 2.1 people to every km2
Thousands march in Madrid as depopulation rocks rural Spain
MADRID has seen large protests by rural Spaniards who fear their communities are withering away.
The movement, labelled the ‘revolt of an empty Spain,’ brought...
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Some 40% of young people in Spain almost never use a condom during sex
Four in 10 young Spaniards say they ‘almost never’ use a condom during sex, according to data released to mark World AIDS day.
The report,...
