David Calzada

Dec 11, 2024 | loveexploring.com | David Calzada |Juan Martinez |Juan Antonio Martínez |Joseph P. Creamer |Stephan Langhans

If you want to visit a ghost town in Spain, head to this medieval village a half-hour drive from Plasencia. It was forcibly evacuated in the 1960s after it was deemed a flood risk during the construction of the Gabriel y Galán dam and reservoir. The fears were unjustified and the village never actually flooded, but the residents never returned. In 1980, the village was declared a Site of Historic and Artistic Interest and you can visit it today.