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RSS Feeds`Empty Spain`: government urged to act as towns fade from map
(The Guardian Spain)

 
 

22 april 2019 12:37:23

 
`Empty Spain`: government urged to act as towns fade from map
(The Guardian Spain)
 


The doctor visits once a week in Sayatón, an hour from Madrid. In the 28 April elections, vanishing towns like this could be a key issueJust over an hour´s drive from Madrid, well beyond the industrial estates and retail parks that orbit the Spanish capital and off a main road that climbs and falls with ear-popping regularity, lies a small town that is slowly fading from the map.Little stirs in Sayatón on a weekday morning besides the wind that whips the town hall flags and the cockerel whose crow bounces off the facades of houses, some shut up against the winter, others in varying states of decay.In many parts of Europe, the issue of depopulation of the countryside, regions, or in some cases whole countries, weighs on the minds of politicians and the public, as an era of freedom of movement means more people are able to migrate to find better opportunities.Terminando de sembrar. Madre, jóven agricultora en Sayatón, pequeño municipio de 50 habitantes de Guadalajara, junto a la Sierra de Altomira, Red Natura 2000, sin colegio ni pediatra, médico una hora a la semana. Y aquí seguimos, con una sonrisa, dando de comer al mundo. pic.twitter.com/6CdlHHaKHYThe village isn´t dying; the people are Related: Romanian hospitals in crisis as emigration takes its toll Continue reading...


 
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