Why are there ghost towns in Spain?

Abandoned villages are ghost towns in Spain with empty properties as a result of rural depopulation. There are more than 3.000 abandoned villages in Spain, most of them in the northern region (Galicia, Asturias and Castile and León), but also in Andalusia, Aragon and Catalonia.



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“Pueblos blancos” (white villages), such as Camares, shown here, cap many hilltops in Andalusia in southern Spain. When a series of epidemics swept through the region between the 16th and 19th centuries, houses were painted with whitewash, made of slaked lime, as a way to protect against disease.

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