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Spanish village up for sale after waiting for its inhabitants for 30 years

The village has several buildings and even a municipal swimming pool but no inhabitants

Spanish village, Spain, sale
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BS Web Team New Delhi
A village in Spain has been struggling to find its inhabitants for 30 years. So, its owner has decided to put it up for sale for only $259,000, the BBC has reported.

Salto de Castro, in north-western Spain, is located on the border with Portugal. It was built by an electricity generation company in the 1950s to house families of the workers who built a reservoir nearby. But the inhabitants abandoned it nearly three decades later after the completion of the reservoir.

However, the village still has several buildings, including 44 homes, a hotel, a school and a municipal swimming

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