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Looking for a quiet life in Spain? 36 villages in inland Malaga seek inhabitants

MALAGA is home to many charming and off-the-beaten-track villages and small towns, of which multiple hope to attract those seeking small-community life. For this, the platform ‘Vente a vivir a un pueblo’

23 Mar, 2023 @ 09:15

Lead·Malaga

IN PICS: Top 10 smallest villages in Spain’s Malaga

AROUND the province of Malaga there are villages with less residents than in a block of flats in a big city.

16 Dec, 2022 @ 17:15

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The Cat’s Whiskers: Is Sierra de Gata Spain’s most delightful region?

As the tiny village of Robledillo de Gata is singled out alongside Carmona and Vejer as Spain’s best rural retreat, Jon Clarke extols the delights of a week in the little-known Sierra

16 May, 2022 @ 10:00

Exploring Spain·Olive Press Travel·Travel: Extremadura

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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, called RuralMind, will feature 40 contestants competing

6 Aug, 2021 @ 17:15

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Spanish town with just seven residents stages 10th edition of ‘smallest film festival in the world’

THERE may only be seven registered inhabitants in the small village of Ascaso, Huesca, but that hasn’t stopped it from putting on an annual film festival every summer for the last decade.

5 Aug, 2021 @ 15:00

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 thousands of people out onto the streets

1 Apr, 2019 @ 13:22

Environment·Lead·Politics

Village in Spain ‘bewildered’ as Robin Hood mystery figure slides cash envelopes of up to €100 under doors

Some of those benefiting from the surprise cash received messages as well, including one that said, to ‘the princess of the household’

13 Mar, 2019 @ 19:21

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How you can buy your own pueblo in Spain

Would you like to own your own village? Spain has a few to spare. They are the forgotten pueblos – once thriving rural communities, now devoid of life, their stone buildings crumbling,

24 Feb, 2019 @ 18:02

Lead·Property

Two Andalucia villages make it onto list of Spain’s seven rural wonders

TWO Andalucian villages have made Homeaway’s Seven Rural Wonders of Spain list. Voted for by the travel website’s clients, in fourth place the Moorish hilltop white village of Vejer de la Frontera

30 Dec, 2018 @ 16:00

Andalucia·Cadiz·Exploring Spain·Olive Press Travel·Travel Cadiz

Six Andalucian villages officially among Spain’s prettiest: how many have you visited?

These beauty spots are included for their history, architecture and culture and show that Andalucia really does have it all

15 Oct, 2018 @ 11:57

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‘Ecocide’: Super-intensive olive farms fingered for water shortages in Almeria

Now 400 times more water is being taken from an important Almeria aquifer than enters, an alarming situation that is being blamed on a surge in super-intensive olive production in the zone

29 Apr, 2017 @ 10:00

Almeria·Environment·Lead·Nature

Santa Claus gets Christmas off to a bang in Gibraltar today

Father Christmas will arrive at Ocean Village at 6.30pm

3 Dec, 2014 @ 14:39

Gibraltar

‘Kill Jews’ village to change 500-year-old name

The tiny village has hit global headlines in recent weeks

26 May, 2014 @ 13:23

National News

Pick up a Spanish ghost town for next to nothing

Foreign investors are queuing up to own abandoned medieval hamlets

11 Mar, 2014 @ 13:03

Other News·Property

Keeping Andalucia’s history alive

At Algaba you can find out what Andalucia was like 5,000 years ago, discovers Eloise Horsfield

5 Nov, 2012 @ 11:00

Travel News

Touring the incredible village of Iznate

Sally Harrison takes a visit to a village that pours beer on its plants

21 Aug, 2012 @ 17:08

Malaga·Other News·Travel News