{"id":237587,"date":"2023-10-03T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=237587"},"modified":"2023-10-03T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:36:35","slug":"inside-abandoned-village-with-pool-bar-gym-that-gets-135-days-of-sun-a-year-could-be-yours-for-the-price-of-a-house-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/inside-abandoned-village-with-pool-bar-gym-that-gets-135-days-of-sun-a-year-could-be-yours-for-the-price-of-a-house-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside abandoned village with pool, bar & gym that gets 135 days of sun a year\u2026& could be yours for the price of a house | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

AN entire abandoned village with 44 homes is up for sale – and it could be yours for the same price as just one house. <\/p>\n

Salto de Castro, in north-western Spain, gets 135 days of sun each year and boasts its own hotel, pool and bar.<\/p>\n


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No one has lived in Salto de Castro for three decades, but now it could all be yours.<\/p>\n

The almost-forgotten village in the Zamora province is on the market for twice the price it sold for last year.<\/p>\n

The entire lot is up for grabs for \u00a3500,000 – the same price as many houses in the UK.<\/p>\n

Prospective buyers would be snapping up dozens of homes, a hotel, a church, a school, a gym, sports areas and a pool and even a barracks building that used to house the civil guard.<\/p>\n

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The village – located a stone\u2019s throw from the border with Portugal – boasts picturesque views of the Douro River.<\/p>\n

And the region gets an average of 1,620 hours of sun each year, which works out as 135 days that you could be basking in the Spanish sun.<\/p>\n

It was built during the 1940s to house workers and their families who were building the nearby dam.<\/p>\n

The abandonment of the 400sqm village began in the 1980s and by 1989, the plant had shut down and there were no inhabitants left.<\/p>\n

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The region around the village has become known as "emptied Spain" due to the sparsely populated towns with few services.<\/p>\n

Whoever buys Salto de Castro will reportedly be eligible for subsidies from the regional government.<\/p>\n

It was snapped up last year for \u00a3259,000 by construction magnate \u00d3scar Torres Gallego – and now has hit the market again for almost double.<\/p>\n

Torres had developed a plan to renovate the village – located in the heart of the Meseta Ib\u00e9rica UNESCO Biosphere Reserve – in a bid to attract rural tourism to the area.<\/p>\n

After submitting the paperwork to authorities, he then decided to put up for sale due to \u201cpersonal problems\u201d.<\/p>\n

And there are already interested parties.<\/p>\n

Torres' estate agent, Romuald Rodr\u00edguez from Royal Invest, said:\u201cSo far, we have received offers from Saudi Arabia and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding the steep price hike, Rodr\u00edguez said they had previously received offers of more than half a million euros, so the increase is \u201cmore than logical\u201d.<\/p>\n

The owners before Torres had bought the village in the early 2000s with the dream of transforming it into a tourist hotspot.<\/p>\n

Their grand plans failed to come to fruition – but they still hoped such a project would go ahead.<\/p>\n

Salto de Castro was previously put up for sale for \u00a31.4million in 2017.<\/p>\n

And then the owner asked for an eye-watering \u00a35.6million in 2019.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, no buyers stepped forward at the time.<\/p>\n

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Although the price tag is low, the eventual buyer of the village would need to front a lot of cash to turn it into the tourist destination its previous owners had hoped for.<\/p>\n

According to Idealista: "The investment required in order to make the village 100% workable and to become profitable would not exceed \u20ac2million [\u00a31.7million]."<\/p>\n


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