Andy Rodker

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Posted: 01 Aug 2022


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The deserted town of Granadilla

The deserted town of Granadilla
Due to the new reservoirs built in the '50s and '60s, many villages and towns were abandoned and flooded. Granadilla was high above the new reservoir but was effectively surrounded by it and cut off from its farmlands (please have a look at the aerial map to get a gist of this isolation). The population moved to the cities in the main. Some decades later as the place became something of a tourist attraction, a few souls moved in to open a restaurant or two and some tourist shops. I've posted a couple of other shots under my Estramadura album: www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/album/999420
There is also this wikipedia entry; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granadilla,_Spain
I thought of 'When the levee breaks', a great blues song for this, even if it's not strictly relevant to the photo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYThZwcDUXk
I selected a 'reaction' Youtube version of this Led Zeppelin classic, just because it was an honest and sincere reaction and it amused me!

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 Andy Rodker
Andy Rodker club has replied
Thank you, Phil!
My girlfriend is fully immersed in projects looking at the viability and means of re-populating abandoned villages here in Spain. At the moment it's all voluntary work but she hopes to gain enough experience to get a full-time and paid position with some foundation or other!
Ironically she's in England as I type this on a two month voluntary working holiday in Salisbury (I forget the name of the foundation / institution) to further both her English and her ambitions. And there was I thinking she was learning well from my very personal tuition!
22 months ago.
 HaarFager
HaarFager club
Interesting story and it's a shame it had to happen.
22 months ago.
 Andy Rodker
Andy Rodker club has replied
Indeed! I've seen quite a few deserted / abandoned (is there a difference?) villages in my time in Spain! Thank you HaarFager!
22 months ago. Edited 22 months ago.
 sunlight
sunlight club
Eine interessante Geschichte !
21 months ago.
 Andy Rodker
Andy Rodker club has replied
Thank you, Ingrid. And many thanks too for your visit!
21 months ago.

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