Life returning to ghost villages

Life returning to ghost villages

PAMPLONA, Spain — Villages across Spain used to be full of life, work, celebration, places where people loved, worshipped and mourned their dead.

LETTER: Once thriving, now forgotten: the fading future of South Africa’s small towns

Once vibrant communities have lost their services and charm

The municipality of Murias de Paredes, in the region of Omaña, has suddenly rejuvenated with two new babies born in just fifteen days. Little Yaiza and Álvaro have awakened joy in an area plagued by depopulation and that has seen how in recent decades the majority of young people have had to look for life outside the territory. Read more]]>