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Inside Europe - Spanish ghost villages

Lauren Frayer, SpainSeptember 24, 2015

While the Industrial Revolution pulled people to northern Europe's big cities centuries ago, in Spain, such migration has happened much more recently -starting in the mid-20th century. Now, Spaniards are abandoning their rural villages in search of big city jobs. And that's having a dramatic impact on the country's landscape. Lauren Frayer reports.

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