On December 12, coinciding with International Mountain Day, 69 municipalities in the Valencian Community joined a nationwide ...

The phenomenon known as 'España vaciada', or 'Empty Spain', refers to the demographic shift leaving many of the country's rural areas sparsely populated. This trend presents a continuing social and ...

A tiny village in Burgos is offering a bar business and a free home from just €50 a month in a bid to save its community from ...

This week I’ve been travelling around Aragón in northeastern Spain, visiting some of the people I wrote about in Monocle three years ago for a piece about the fight against rural depopulation. This ...

MADRID (Reuters) -Vacation rental firm Airbnb will invest in the promotion of inland towns across Spain over the next three years to tap into rural tourism, as major cities restrict short-term rentals ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GUALBA, Spain (AP) — Plastic jugs in hand, ...

With drought decimating crops in Catalonia, Spain, one small village is fighting back — with prayer. Farmers in mountainous L’Espunyola are seeking divine intervention in hopes that crop-saving rain ...

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 21, The causes and consequences of depopulation (2023), pp. 277-308 (32 pages) Many small Spanish municipalities (those with less than 2000 inhabitants) ...

Catalonia has declared a drought emergency due to reservoirs serving 6 million people, including Barcelona, being at historic lows, leading to water usage restrictions. Small towns like Gualba have ...

GUALBA, Spain (AP) — Plastic jugs in hand, Joan Torrent takes a path into the woods in search of drinking water. He fills them at a natural spring and then hauls them back to his home in Gualba, a ...