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Town leaders and entrepreneurs in Spain's northwestern Galicia region want to repopulate hundreds of empty hamlets hard hit by long-term decline. Lugo, Spain — A cluster of picture-pretty stone homes lies at the bottom of a verdant valley here in northern...

The abandoned village of O Penso, in northwest Spain, is for sale for about $230,000. The last resident died a decade ago. The village includes 100 acres with half a dozen houses, two sprawling farms with room for 70 cattle and a stand-alone bread-making...

Every August, Spain's countryside comes alive with fiestas. A jolly trombone player prances through a crowd of revelers in Cantalejo, a small town about 1 1/2 hours' drive north of Madrid. But the hubbub is deceiving — because hardly anyone actually...

CORTEGADA, Spain-AFP) - For sale: hamlet in Spain. Needs work. Price: zero euros. Like thousands of abandoned villages in Spain, A Barca -- with its 12 crumbling stone homes covered in moss and ivy -- is seeking a new owner to bring it back to life...

Photos via Galician Country Homes As of January 2015, the unemployment rate in Spain had climbed to 24%, causing thousands of Spaniards to flee their homes in search of work elsewhere, leaving entire villages (small ones, at least) on the market for...