A derelict Spanish village was snapped up by a Dutch couple for just €350,000, and now it’s gearing up for a fresh start as ...

Maaike Geurts and Tibor Strausz purchased Bárcena de Bureba in Spain for €350,000 in 2021, which is just under the average UK ...

From forgotten gold mines and deserted monasteries to nightclubs left to the elements, there's a whole host of eerie ...

It remains one of the few fortress villages in country with still intact ancient walls, and impressive relics of its former ...

Spain is ground-zero for rural depopulation ... Esperanza Escribano "If it wasn't for me and my brother, this village would have been abandoned a long time ago," he says. Fewer than 10 people ...

But the inhabitants moved away after its completion and the village was totally abandoned in the late 1980s. The area surrounding it is part of what has become known as "emptied Spain" - sparsely ...