Slow renaissance of medieval ghost town in Spanish Pyrenees
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Fifty or sixty years ago, residents of small rural Spanish towns abandoned their centuries-old villages in search of a new type of life in the city. For years, the couple thousand ghost towns of mostly Northern Spain lay empty, but in the early eighties, the migration happened in reverse. Residents of cities began to move back to these abandoned towns to start a new, slower, simpler life.
The medieval town of Ibort- 75 miles north of Zaragoza- was "rediscovered" in 1986 when a group of friends, tired of city life, arrived here to start living a slower life in the country.
"When they came here, it was to try to return to a type of life closer to nature, closer to certain values that were disappearing from this urban world," explains Ibort resident Ricardo.
They began rebuilding the homes in keeping with the traditional stone style, most often with labor-intensive slate roofs included. The new villagers had little home building experience, but everyone had to build- or rebuild- their own home.
"I think it's one of the most beautiful things a person can make, "his house," explains Ricardo. "In the past nearly everyone had to do it, to live in a home you built, it's a different experience".
Today, Ibort is home to about 60 people. There is still rebuilding going on and there is still space to learn from the past. "Our modern world so accelerated, so much rushing around," says Ricardo. "I think it's necessary to stop a bit this race to who knows where."
On *faircompanies: faircompanies....
I am a farmer from England and have built my own house ( I know how lucky I am,) this guys eloquent philosophy deserves respect. excellent video.
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We spent a couple of nights there and enjoyed a nice time with Ricardo, his lovely dutch wife (who has the most beautiful vegetable garden I have ever seen) and one of their sons, a charming young man. They have a great hostel for short term visitors and a cute little pub. Ricardo and another villager who arrived there about the same time in the 80s have climbed the Pyrenees and slept on the peaks and enjoy an occasional disco dance at the pub.
I went from working 6 to 7 days per week for an entire year, at over 80 hours per week to suddenly being unemployed. At first I loved it. My body was tired. The stress was killing me at my job. My ankles had swollen. I was sick. But then after several months (its now been an entire year of no work and I live alone) I feel like this guy. I spend 90% of my time "reflecting" over my life when I'm not looking for work. I terminated my cable. I now read a lot. You can learn a LOT about yourself alone
i want that too, but how without money? and i cant work annymore it destroys me and my body. I am in very much stress. and i need a place where real live stillcan be.
I love these old villages. Wish I had found one years ago. Now I have built my own house and have become self-sufficient in almost everything. The old ways were so much more connected with nature. Love it. X
Que elocuencia, maravillosa manera de entender, respetar y exponer todo lo que admira, es un encanto la sabiduría de éste Sr. gracias por tan bello vídeo
Ibort residents got a 20 yr lease from the govt. Ricardo says they are beneficiaries, not owners & he was ok w/that. Many inhabitants of abandoned towns feel they get a good deal- their labor in exchange for free rent. At issue here is our public contract: we agree to respect property rights- public & private- in return for the right to own a home, for protection of nat'l forest, public safety, etc. We pay property tax in return for what these villagers now receive for free (schools, new roads).
A very intelligent man. Lovely location.
So BEAUTIFULLY old centuries of villages homes ever.....!!!!
Sorry for my english...My grandfather was born in 1885 in a. village of the pyrenees of Huesca Aragon that existed since the 800s. He never went to the doctor and died at the age of 93. I didn't know his secret but i think it' was the mountains!
Fer Mac and simple pure life! 🙏
The area where your grandfather was from is absolutely beautiful. Love from an American in Madrid :)
@@dafyddil Just came from Formigal, the Pyrenees are incredibly beautiful.
Doctor kill people with their medicine and lies. Not seeing the doctor is the secret!
What a wonderful man
What a wise man, he knows, what life is all about. Este hombre sabe mucho, me gustaria hablar con el de la vida.
One of my favourite videos on sustainable living so far. So well put and the video conveys it all very well.
I was born in Spain. My Parents went to America. I was told to choose to become an American and did. I do not even speak Spanish. I experienced discrimination when I worked for the city of Norfolk. I love being an American, The Dec of Ind, The Constitution, The Bill of Right, even despite the fact that the governments violate those thing in every way and so completely. When I see a video like this, i yearn for a life like that, more natural, in which the government Socialists, greedy-vain NWO corporate Oligarchs, and everyone else with evil intent would simply leave me and those I love alone. This is one of the most beautiful videos of beautiful people and a beautiful life that i have ever seen. What is said stands true as well.
God Bless you.
I was in Spain not even a month ago and I loved it, Im from Cuba with spanish ancestors from the Basque country , When I saw this video I wanted to go there and stay forever.
If things keep going the way they are in the States I just may leave.
Read nicolai levashov and the Real history of the world: you'll never think the same.
The Adventures Of Don Quixote: now that’s living life to its fullest, with the blink of the imagination.
Seeing through the eyes of Cervantes and hearing this: the very ultimate best of Old world’s meet, but Cervantes twists of humor are unmatched to this day.
This way of life makes me think of God, philosophy, and the ideals where work is much much more than a paycheck.
God bless him and his beautiful mind.
I mean, you can live a natural life in the EEUU... Spain is not all natural.
in reflection to Nicolás Boullosa.
"Why private owners wouldn't like to maintain these places is something beyond me."
These places take if not money, then effort to maintain. The same thing is happening all over the world: I call it the great rural emptying. The kids go to the city to pursue a 'better life' - the old folks stay in the village: the old folks die: the kids think "well who is to buy it?" - after all - everyone is in the city
This is really just incredible. I've bought a language course and started saving...
great that you visited that. where time stops.
que lugar tan chingon como decimos nosotros los Mexicanos que lugar tan bonito
Spain has many abandoned neglected areas that are great for adventursing...ruins of castles, bunkers trenches and caves.
Un hombre muy sabio y qué bien comunica el tema de la restauración de la vida rural en un pueblo qué fue abandonado. Mi madre viene de un pueblo muy parecido, pero es por El Bierzo, León. Al menos ahí aún se quedaron algunos y se mantiene bien el pueblo, las cositas y las cosechas como las castañas. Mi prima y mis tíos siguien subiendo al pueblo los findes y durante mucho del verano, aunque viven en otro lugar cerca.
Beautiful , humble, hardworking , people.
This looks like my grandparets villages in Orense, Galicia, Spain. They left their homes and came to Argentina at the begining of the 20th century, before Civil War. In 1981 I traveled whith my parents to those villages and found my grandparents houses in ruins. It was like a dream, a little medieval village in the mountains, covered by snow......I hope one day I can return.
Ghost towns flow the other way - a river of 7 billion people streams toward the cities. On the other hand - hard living in Spain was a real thing for a long time and the underlying reasons for the hardship are still there - rocks instead of loam. Back to the other hand - When places like Ibort have a reliable water source and safe non-polluted conditions - then the apparent "home" for people has an actual foundation.
Everything this man speaks of, is true!
I can run a sewer, i can wire an outlet, i can run a chainsaw, i can cook almost anything, i can cut fire wood, i can unclog a toilet, i can roof, sew, plant, modify, i can wash clothes, and dishes, change a tire, paddle a canoe, make a damn, run duct work, suck out a septic tank, fish, hunt, work a compass, run a circular saw, measure a board, climb a tree, dig a ditch, manufacture something from nothing, invent, enjoy, relax, be calm, delegate, answer, ask, and tell what needs to be done! The only thing i can't do, is speak Spanish!! makes you wonder where my education was lacking!! This group of people are realizing, this way of life that we live, is harmful and useless, to what we really are! My way of life is a benefit for somebody else! These people live for each other!! The live the life the way we were meant to live!! Harmony with NATURE!!! In a heartbeat, i'd give up every THING(thing, as in stuff, that's all it really all is, is stuff) i own, to go back to this lifestyle!! I don't want to worry about the gas bill anymore, nor the electric bill, nor the insurance bill.. I want to fear the mountain lion, the bear, skunk! Not the bent axle, the bad ball joint, the leaky sink, the internet bill, the hurried customer, the back ordered parts, Life, well my life, is like the game Monopoly, when i die, it all goes back in the box! Useless, hopeless, tiring, draining, un-full fulling, and dull!!
Do it then
+schmassbinder Would love to, but too many ties here. Kids, family, friends and such. We, this world, need to mix technology with old ways in this fashion, and make the world a better place for ALL not just the the elite, rich few!! The only way to do that, is to wake people up! Plant seeds in people! We can change the world, if people would abandoned this hell we hold onto now, and maybe someday, our kids, and their kids can live a much fulfilled life!!
Hey Steve I really relate to what you are saying! It is very hard to break free when you have children to raise, they need a good stable life.
I think you are well on your way at least at some point to break free and do something that you have been holding back.
For me I raised five great kids who are all graduated from college and are out on there own, Now I can get going with building what I want, for me that will be buying three shipping containers with two side by side and the third will be across the ends of the other two, they will be built into a hillside with concrete poured on top of the containers.
I get excited just talking about it. :)
I will buy 2 acres outside of Albuquerque NM the land is cheap at about 2000 an acres.
What I did while raising the kids is I learned how to do everything I could from laying block to pouring concrete, Welding (my sons and I even had a small welding business) wiring a house, plumbing, Electronics was my vocation so I can check that off as well, I have always worked on cars engines rebuilt tractors.
So now all of those skills will come into play.
The build will start in the Autumn of 2017, but I will place an RV on site in the spring and be doing ground work using an old backhoe that I rebuilt.
I have been thinking of videoing the process then posting the videos here on YT.
Just keep working away enjoy raising your kids and plan for the future.
Best wishes to you
the life ties us to the land, and to each other. the tying is what religion means...beyond what it seems, it's the ritual of respect for land, our brothers, the needy, and God.
someone will take care of you in your old age...the business govt., your children; someone...
Love it❤️.The man is very wise.
Es un video libro para aprender que el hombre no sabe como vivir. gracias por apostar este video fantastico
What a great teacher of life
I had the opportunity to visit Vandellos (Tarraogna) while it was in reconstruction with some teenagers from several countries, I went there to visit one, but their work was pretty amazing.
+María Martínez Ruiz tarragona*
Senior, you are so right! We move too fast and have forgotten the wisdom of our elders.
Love to live that way.
This man is very wise. I am excited for you you are living a dream that many people would like to try. It is inspirational to see this kind of work.
Wonderful! Thanks. And Ricardo is quite the philosopher! I know a few of the abandoned villages in Portugal. Spain, not so well, but they are similar. Ever go to Portugal?
I love that part of the world. It’s magical
The way he express his self is very humble but well educated at the same time.
Wonderful place - lovely people
im going to Spain to find a village of my own :)
well.....did u do it?
yes I am here now :) it is amazing :)
+kingneddy Where?
SomethingSoOriginal northern Spain, Basc country :) interested in volunteering? there are many communities in Northern Spain who live like this. some of us grow weed along with our food so we can afford some modern tech like solar panels. google los abandonados.
Nice man, yeah i'd like to work at one of these, learn spanish, develop rustic skills and hopefully live in a more natural way
Wonderful 😍So much wisdom in this man's words💙 Wonderful 👏👏👏
Hugely inspiring
Thanks for showing us ways of life we seldom see elsewhere. Inspiring.
Fantàstic vídeo
Kirsten, I wondered how you came to discover this village. They don't seem to advertise themselves and I couldn't find any information. So, kinda wondered what the backstory was and furthermore how one can reach them, if at all?
Bucolic, bonita, muchos gracias
Huesca es una pasada,me gusteria vivir alli
Beautiful!!
This video makes me happy.
beautiful!
Very wise man
can i come and live there too? i'm tired of this corrupt society and nature hasn't been part of my life for too long
The reference to 'ownership of properties' is (apparently) a question relating to what entity (dead, either juristic corporation or person, same thing...) owns (realm of the dead) the property (the Title, the abstract accounting representation of the substantive land).
And the question is: Does it really matter?
Recuerdo Huesca....pase un ano alli en un colegio....I remember Huesca; spent a yr there ...going to school...liked it a lot....I'm not fm there....Come Fm El Bierzo (leon) but i live in the US...since the mid 60s...
All this makes me sad
Such abeautifull place !
I hope the government continues after the lease to respect the work and effort of the people to restore this government owned land.
We have abandoned farms, villages and dead urban areas across the US. Some are bought as potential investments for multi-million dollars profits someday, while investors reap tax deductions now. Others are completely forgotten Until they begin to be restored, then they are taken by developers with governmental connections. This is what I have seen in the US.
i want to visit Spain so bad
What a great ontology this dude has
@ccbgraphics Good point. I guess nobody can guarantee you a right you didn't acquire in the first place. Private property would do so. Issue here, though: these ghost towns became part of the forest literally, public land. Nobody to buy from but the State. So the only way one could claim ownership here would be via a settlement with the Administration. Question: is the work of these people, who clean the forest and are careful with public patrimony, something to be respected? I think so.
I have a question about these villages in the past two videos - they are awesome, btw - but is there a chance the government can come and say "you don't own this land" and kick them out? Or is there some equivalent of squatters laws that they've been there for 20-30 years, now it's theirs, or some such thing? They are so amazing but I'd fear them losing all their hard work and homes!
I'm not Spanish, so I can't say for sure, but if I recall there is a law in Spain that if you occupy a piece of land for 20 years without being evicted you become the owner. They also mentioned at the beginning I think that this is technically part of the national forest, and that the trade-off for living there was that they had to rebuild the village. So I'm guessing the government let them stay, and in return they had to maintain the old village
@kirstendirksen I think that's the key. They have agreed to give their work in exchange for a temporary use of the patrimony. Therefore they can't sell the houses they fixed, nor give them officially to their descendants, nor officially rent it, etc. I think they may have thought carefully about the drawbacks of their decision. They enjoy their life there nowadays, though.
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You make such beautiful videos... Can please upload a video about dry stone house making
Heya Kirsten, do you intend to do a follow up to this place at any point?
I didn't notice any composting there, or if they move their animals around on the land in rotation? A big part of regenerative farming is moving the animals around in bunches, as in the times of shepherds, to never let the land be eaten bare, to let the grasses and other plants regenerate. Farmers like Joel Salatin have done wonders for regenerating topsoil from bare land that was given up as dead, and key to the health of the land is to move the animals every few days to new pasture, using either electric fencing or sheepdogs. Composting toilets for humans and using animal manures into rotations is so key to reviving the soils and eating well off the land. And then finally, do they have a village herbalist? I think they might find living off the land a lot easier with these aspects looked after. The old agricultural methods of tilling and fertilizing are what destroyed the soils and microbiology.
That village is a lot like navasquse in nevarra Spain. My father was born their he's is Basque and came to country at 21 to start a new life. I am glad he has passed on, not to see what is happing to day.
He has some nice points of view
Buen vídeo!!!! Yo quiero hacer algo así, y necesitaría consejo para ello...
WOW! AWESOME!
the music in the opening is from terra genesis
What happened to this community? Still there? This is so cool.
Abandoned village is brought back to life.....
It always struck me as poignant how in the sci fi shows the 'idyllic' 23rd century lifestyle is .. subsistence farming. How that is what you aspire to do. With a huge underpinning of genuine human community; people with shared social, familial and cultural bonds.
Then I look at the modern corporate kelptocratic multicultural hellhole I live in ..
This is where I want to live.
what IGPD is writing is true: there is no such thing as 'ownership' in nature, therefore it's secondary to natural law, a creation of the mind confined to positive law (the legal realm, also called the dead realm, or fiction realm). So ownership is confined to those who believe in it. It's very much a religion (a system of belief), and not grounded in substance at all.
Hello, is it possible to visit or contact this village? Thank you
So interesting. Do the people living there also work there or commuting to other places for work?
go on weekends for a couple years ,work at it ,make it somewhat livable ,learn to love it ,is it for me or not,will i have the energy for this dream of mine sell all your shit ,and it finally happens,GOOD BYE CITY.
"You have to sell a lot of yourself just to get ahead" Oh so....life pretty much everywhere in modern society. Except you don't get to reap the benefits of that hard work. You just get a pay check and possibly the chance to afford a tiny shit hole and some cheap convenience food.
I choose the lifestyle we see here over toiling away for a corporation any day.
What's that song in the beginning?
Wonderful video but they never mention where the bathroom is & where u go no.2
in the woods.. using sticks as toilet paper
Por Dios... hace siglos de eso. Probablemente la mayor parte de nosotros tiene ancestros conquistadores y conquistados. Señores y plebeyos. Si esas "deudas" se heredasen, nos deberíamos rendir cuentas hasta a nosotros mismos.
lovely but like c33r0k33 village life will become highly valued in the near future those houses in the mind of an invester
I am fascinated with your vision and your projects! How can you be contacted?
Water seller of Seville by Velazquez - how is the water?
I am searching a place like that.... i want to be a part, and be free.....i have manny ideas and can bring a lot of tools and stuff like that.
@nicolasboullosa But, again, private property is a right that would recognize your work. Except if the Administration wants to build a dam or any other equipment and, paying you what they think is fair, resettles you and takes out your property. The move of the people on these ecovillages in the 80s was risky, but at the same time they were careful to pick ghost villages with no private interests involved. Why private owners wouldn't like to maintain these places is something beyond me.
my dream
Who owns the proterty's ?
is there still abandonet villages in spain ?
¿donde estan todas las personas?
cagando!!
@@vicramaco 😂😂😂😂que hay, una diarrea colectiva?😂😂😂
If someone can tell me if there are still availible homes please let me know. I am really interested in this. I am a certificated 43 years young bricklayer and am a Allrounder all around buildings.. i am even familiar with remodelling old construction buildings and done it many times be4. I am ready for aventures and Tasks.
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I dream of such a domicile
b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l. ❤️
I stop buying most things. Though i am earning a big fat salary. Actually it takes very little to live on. Can hunt wild animals and forage plants even in the city. I cook most things well. Can replace grass with fruit trees whenever i get seeds or plant starters. I use public land. I dont believe in wasting money to own more land.
Where the villagers has gone
The wording on the thumbnail is just so now.
well yes, considering were in real life, and there is ownership. I see what you're saying, but you're just plain wrong on that point.
bad idea to use power saw with no shirt and long hair hangin down. Just sayins all
The Basque people were forced out in the 30's. I wonder why.
Huesca es Aragón, no es país Vasco.
I agree !
who grows the weed?
Humans think there is. So what intelligent being doesn't think there is? Whether it be a physical object or an idea, its still in "real life".
:)
Quizas los ancestros de la inquisition, guerras, cruzadas and dictaduras ¿deambulan ahi?
No way hoze