I live in that "empty void" and it's wonderful. Not overcrowded, quiet and relaxed and in touch with nature.

Me and a group of friends, Belgians, specifically went on vacation in the"Serrania Celtiberica" region because it IS so isolated. Fantastic medieval villages and festivals, barely anyone speaks English, no cellphone reception while hiking. Nature and the people were great. It's one of my most memorable trips.

Last June, I drove 5 hours through the western province of Extramadura and only saw a handful of other vehicles. The small villages are untouched by commercialism. It’s a beautiful region and I hope it stays that way.

Maybe it's a good thing, giving the Spanish Wildlife a place to live. I'm thankful that Spain leaves that beautiful landscape mostly untouched.

As someone who was born in the empty part of Spain and now lives on another part of that emptiness I need to point out that countries doesn t belong to industries only. We are blessed to have protected areas for animals, birds, even bees are important. We also have protected our nightsky. Maybe province capitals might help people who wanna reseach, develop or promote an idea better, but the essence of life is hidden in here.

I live in Extremadura. One of the poorest, least inhabited parts of Spain. Heart wrenchingly beautiful, with the friendliest people I've ever met, anywhere in Europe, never mind Spain. In the 20 years I've lived here, I've noticed a steady increase in living standards and improved infrastructure. I have no desire to live anywhere else on Earth, thank you. Sometimes, a relatively low level of population, a natural, unpolluted environment and a stress free, slower pace of life is exactly what's needed to live long and happily.

Everybody from Spain respects and loves the empty part. We are educated and grateful on how lucky we are for having such a beautiful country

I was born and raised in Barcelona (Spain's second most populated city, with around 3.5M inhabitants) and I now live in Madrid, the second most populated city within the EU. In Spain, job opportunities for those with a high level of studies are only possible in big cities, there's nothing else than fields and farms in the center of the country (like in most parts of the central US) but life there is muuuuuch better: healthier, more relaxed, easier and funnier. Most of the people living in big cities have second homes in other small villages and towns inside the so-called "empty Spain" because life there goes on another path. Time stops, there are no rushes, food is amazing, 0 crime or violence (Spain's not a violent country, but big cities always have their problems). Sometimes living in an unpopulated region have lots of perks!

As an Australian, I hear "a 45 minute drive to reach the next City" and I think "wow that is so close" I'm used to it being a 15 hour drive to the nearest city

"Underdeveloped" is a pretty negative way to describe pristine, untouched, and flourishing land. Leave some of it be for the other animals and plants too, we need it now more than ever

I used to travel to Spain as a kid during holidays with my parents and this video reminded me why I loved it so much, Spain is such a beautiful country

Im in the UK and have daydreamed about moving to Spain. This makes me want to go even more.❤ Clean, mountainous, beautiful, rugged and sparsely populated!

As someone who lives in the red "empty" area, it is wonderful in here. Natural environment, unpolluted air, caring people... The massive problem is the lack of interest that the government has regarding infrastructure and public services. It makes it difficult for the youth to find a job... Hence, people are forced to move to the heavily populated areas.

As a Spaniard living in Barcelona since I was born, I'm quite sure that the creator of this video has studied better and sought more solutions to the problem of "empty Spain" than the government since this problem was known. I still think that it is one of the best, if not the best, country to live in, but problems like these make me ashamed of my country.

A lot of the low population density areas of Spain contain some of the most pristine wild habitats, forests and mountains in Europe. Some of the wildflower meadows and alpine pastures in Spain are incredibly rich in flora and fauna. Long may they remain underpopulated.

Yes, this is my country. For anyone curious, this here is called "la España vaciada" (the emptied Spain). In the Castillian regions you can find dozens of completly abandoned towns.

I lived in Spain for two years in the early 80s, and still love the country. Those "empty areas" are beautiful, natural, and inhabited by families and communities that love them. I also grew up in rural, farmland Ohio where the closest "city" of any import was 45 minutes away, and I loved growing up there. Life is not all about infrastructure development and modernization.

Spain ia such a good country it was the first country that i have traveled to and believe me u will definitely have a lot of fun and good memories when u visit it especially for summer vacations ✨ Greetings to spain from ur algerian neighbor 🇩🇿❣️🇪🇸

Comparing to other countries: I've been working as international consultant I live in Asia and Europe. I've worked in China, Singapore, Philippines, Netherlands, Germany and Spain. For 14 Years my perspective of wealth has change and its economy, In Spain more lands are empty but it is home to apples, oranges, dairy farms, jamon, and vegetables businesses, factories of cars and renewable energies. Though its a village and almost empty, clinics and healthcare are accesible and provide good quality services, and its included on the tax you've paid. In China their empty villages are also like Spain full of cultures and local bars and restaurants, but clinics are hard for expats, In Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia its the same almost but its home to touristic area and restaurants, heathcare and clinic is a slight okay but not compare to Spain and Netherlands villages that heathcare are seamless. So overall its just about the perspective and how accesible the place are its not about the more population the better, its about distribution of wealth and services and how safe the place is.

I traveled to rural Spain with my parents, and while it was empty, the land was dramatic and lovely, it’s such a privilege to visit, and as an American I’d compare it to traveling New Mexico, but with a lot more culture in the rural hubs you do visit.

Basically: La España vaciada (the emptied Spain) , people moved to cities when the civil war started and then lots of villages lots lots of people, now mostly all villages are based in tourism and agriculture.

I found myself in that yellow area north east of Madrid, in 1987 for work. It was certainly behind the times, that's for sure. At the time, you could not even get a telephone line installed in the house unless someone in town died, then there was a lottery to see who would get that phone line. There just weren't enough telephone switching facilities. Anyways, long story short, after a few months I ended up loving it. So much so, that after my 6 month work gig was over, I ended up staying there for 11 years. The people there, the countryside and everything about it was just beautiful.

Love rural Spain! .would be nice to have a home there. (wishful thinking) greetings from rural Canada .

I just came back from studying in Spain for a year, and after taking some trains, I can confirm that the country is indeed mostly uninhabited. The natural beauty being preserved by the low-population regions are quite nice though, and the people along the countryside are still happy living isolated with their own customs and festivals.

When I went to Spain, I did not know much about the interior region. I was jogging every day in a beautiful park in Zaragoza where I stayed for 10 days. The lush park started near downtown but when you reached the other side, it just kept going into wilderness. I asked the bartender later that night if I kept running how long till I saw another town. He said, 'Never. You'd die first". Later I checked it on Google Maps, and he was not joking. The park opened up onto hundreds of kilometers of barren desert. I loved Zaragoza, Nice chill atmosphere and nice people.

As an Español, I'm surprised at how correct and accurate the information was. It isn't that frequent to see such a well researched video. And yeah, many small villages scattered throughout inland Spain still see their numbers go into double and even single digits today, due to rural to urban migration. Biggest problem is the lost of culture and traditions, which make Spain a country with such a rich and diverse culture. Thanks so much for the video!

I really appreciated your work, thank you for these very instructive video.

The amount of high speed rail they have makes me very jealous as a Northern Brit

Spain is basically just an extremely successful urbanization effort, as it was the only way to develop extremely quickly out of the post-war period. As a side note, most new buildings in Spain during that period were flats and not suburban houses (even if space was clearly not an issue), since it was cost effective and allowed the masses coming from the countryside have their needs met with fewer services; and it's a trend that to this day keeps population densities incredibly high in the cities.

I absolutely love rural Spain.

I'm Spanish, and being honest, I find so interesting how others talk about these topics such as "España Vaciada". To be honest, I don't like all the people that get harmed by it (those who live in small towns) but I view that, in this way, we get our country to remain as green and natural as possible while being a huge thing out there

Spain for me is the most beautiful place on earth. I'm British but I'm pretty sure I was Spanish in my former life ;) The people, the food, architecture etc etc San Sebastian is my fvourite place and has the most amazing food. When I die I hope heaven has a bar with Pintxos!!!

It's really interesting how many regions are not that populated while some are filled to the brim.The concept of population planning is simple yet very complicated

I live outside of Madrid and driving to an “empty” area or the mountains takes 30 minutes. The country is easy to travel with well connected cities so it isn’t so necessary to develop all the dehesas, farmland, prairies and forests. Whenever people visit they’re stunned at how little sprawl there is, it’s beautiful.

Wow. The comments show so much appreciation for my country. Thank you all so much ❤️

Last year we bougth an abandoned farm in Spain, and we kind knew this about Spain before buying the land. Turns our the area where our Finca is located is virtually empty, and because of that we were granted bulding permission to renovate our 300+ years our stone house. We are moving soon to live full time and start the restoration projects.

As a portuguese i don´t see this as a problem at all, the region i come from in Portugal is also very empty in comparison to the big cities in coast areas. It has it´s own charme about it and it is nice to see untouched nature without a lot of human interaction wrecking everything. And i am happy that Spain and Portugal leave this areas alone at the most parts. I mean the Iberian Peninsula have a lot of beautiful cities so why go and try to destroy the also beautiful nature around it, if it isn´t really needed?

As a Spaniard (albeit one who's lived abroad for many years), this was a very interesting perspective. Thank you! There are a couple more things I would perhaps have mentioned. A lot of land in Spain is dedicated to pastures and agriculture, and the country is far more self-reliant in terms of food production than most of the more densely-populated countries in Europe. There is also a lot of public land just dedicated to forestry, etc - something essential for biodiversity and to prevent further desertification. Extreme weather in some regions also makes it difficult to build larger settlements (access to water is a growing issue in Spain). Diverting rivers, etc. to support populations in these areas would not be viable, for a number of reasons. It's a difficult issue to tackle, with multiple pieces to balance, but I absolutely agree that more investment on rural, depopulated regions is essential.

It's really wonderful to come across people who freely share valuable information online. You never know what kind of knowledge you might stumble upon that could have a lasting impact on your life.

I flew into Madrid twice and each time took a bus to Grenada near the Albaicin. Definitely a long bus ride but it was a beautiful one. Olive trees as far as the eye can see and snow capped mountains.

I live in the mountains in a village of 8 population and that feels like a crowd sometimes...it's a peaceful and slow life that many would envy. I'm grateful for all living in the cities and leaving the wilderness to itself. It's perfect as it is.

Guys the empty Spain is wonderful. Toledo, Segovia, Cáceres, León, Burgos, and other cities are located here. These cities have lot of monuments (roman, arab, christian). If you ever come to Spain, most of them are as close as 2h by train from Madrid.

I loved living in Spain. I felt more at home there for those years than I do in my home country. One day, I hope to return.

Very informative, entertaining and well made video.

Here in Spain, high speed train is not seen as a blessing, but as a curse on the population, because the high speed line replaces the conventional line, erasing all the stops in villages and provoking even more declining in population on said villages. Recently the government closed the Madrid-Cuenca-Valencia line to replace it with the high speed line, and that made Cuenca the first province in Spain to not have any conventional rail line. Also the Madrid-Extremadura line is not being repaired at all, having frequencies of around 4 trains a day, even traversing some middle-sized cities on its route, and still, they are constructing the high speed line at the side with almost no stop on that cities (that are already declining) EDIT: I am watching comments on why is this a bad thing. Well, it's not good to have hypertrophic cities that cannot stand with their own flow, and abandoned towns around because said cities absorb all the economy

Are we at a point where it's a "problem" to not have a density of people on every square unit of land? I lived in Spain and admire their vast open spaces as well as their dense urban cities. Beyond the rural regions not having adequate infrastructure, there doesn't seem to be any problem here

I was born in Algeria and live in Spain, even tought I am living in the coast, I often go to the empty void and it is amazing, you feel alone and you can see the real Spain without big buildings and turistic things like Benidorm or Marbella, if you go there I recommend to visit Cuenca, really beautiful

The empty part of Spain is a bliss to Nature, animals and to people who want to have a stressless life or who enjoy awesome landscapes. It's not a bad thing to live in a paradise in Asturias, Cantabria or Galicia... where you can come across a wild eagle, a fox, or a deer... ;where you can walk inside big forests, drink water from the mountains or where you can sleep without car noises... The bad part of it are the means of transport, the old and slow trains, the lack of banks or doctors in kilometers. These are the things we ask our gobernors to improve, but inhabited regions are not bad themselves...

I did a road trip through Spain in 2015. It’s an overwhelmingly beautiful country. I saw the most amazing landscapes that I haven’t seen anywhere else in the world. Can’t wait to visit again.

My parent's hometown in the andalusian mountains has seen a decline in population from 9k people in the 50s to 4k people nowadays. Meanwhile, the town they moved to in the balearic islands (my hometown) has seen an increase in population from 7k habitants to 40k in the same span of time.

I went to Granada to visit a friend. Stayed in Albaicin. It was incredible. We went bike riding through what looked like a desert. It looked post apocalyptic. Abandoned buildings including a golf course. It was hard to believe I was still in Europe. Still was very beautiful.

Only here to say thank you for all the education you give us, and then to say that people really really should visit Valencia, cause it’s one of the best European cities. I’m French and I’ve spent a few months in Valencia, it was honestly one of the best experience I had. The city is so beautiful, every building is worth being seen, people are very kind, the weather is great, you have parks (El Río, or Jardín del Turia) one of the most visited in Europe and the sea, mountains aren’t really far from the city. It’s huge but still a human-sized city. I keep telling people to go there, and they’re never disappointed!

I think the best way to attract people to these "empty" places is to promote remote working. Connect them to the high speed broadband, modernize the infrastructure allowing quick transport in and out, give very attractive housing prices and there would be a lot of people escaping the expensive cities. If there is no incentive of work, then people will not move out. That is why remote working is critical for attracting people back into these rural areas.

I am Rumanian and I lived in Spain for more then 10 years and I can say I’ve never seen a beautiful country like this !! It was the most beautiful experience of my life , beautiful people , the food it’s out of the normal , beautiful cities , I had the opportunity to visit Andalucía , part of Pais Vasco , Asturias , cualquiera que quiera visitar el país se va a enamorar a primera vista de su gente y una cultura como no hay otra en el mundo ! Respect for one of the most beautiful countries in the world ! I love Spain , I want to spend the rest of my days in Madrid with a good coffe and beautiful streets !

Spaniard here. I'm blown away by how in depth and informative your video was, going as far as explaining Spain's history in the 20th century and its socioeconomic impact. I'm the grandchild of 4 rural immigrants who came to Barcelona from Asturias and Andalucía in the late 50s and mid 60s respectively, during the economic boom you mentioned. I'm not a patriotic person but dang, even I'm proud right now seeing how much we've advanced in the 50 years since the end of the regime.

It is interesting that nobody realizes how big is Spain. It is close to double the square km of Germany. This is a very important factor to understand this problem that is not even mentioned in the video.

I've spent a few weeks in Spain on a couple different trips and visited a quite a few different areas of the country; the cities I visited were wonderful (Barcelona, Zaragoza, Madrid, Pamplona, Bilbao, San Sebastian), but the sparsely populated rural areas are the ones that I enjoyed the most. Those areas might not be densely populated, but they are anything but "Empty". The best thing I did was to make a few days time during a work trip to ride off-road motorcycles around the dirt roads of some of the mountains and countryside areas you highlighted as least populated and see some of the land and the wildlife. I thoroughly enjoyed getting meals in the little family operated restaurants of small towns and trying to engage with local people there in conversation. If I were to ever want to move to Europe, rural Spain would be near the top of my list of places to settle; as an American who speaks only a very limited amount of Spanish that is saying something, but it is a beautiful country full of beautiful, genuinely nice people. The pace of life there and the way the people live was refreshing to me at the time. I'm sure all is not perfect, and spending a couple weeks somewhere on vacation or a work assignment certainly is not going to make someone perfectly informed on all the issues there, but I loved the brief time I spent exploring around Spain and would jump at the chance to visit again if the opportunity arises.

Living in Spain but without the S😔🇪🇸

I live in a small city which is in a forgotten-ish province in Spain (Jaén) and we have a nice mix of historic places and lovely nature around it, wouldn't change it for nothing although I love to travel ♥

It is Spanish tradition to complain about our own country, even hate it, but when you see it from a perspective other than your own, specially from a global point. Damn am I lucky to have been born here, damn am I lucky to be Spanish. The potential we hold, not only economically but also culturally is massive. We really are living in the best nation in the world, sure we have issues but yeah, quality of life and life/work balance here is amazing. You actually LIVE here.

I'm Italian but I love Spain too, as most Italians do; I've been there many times and I really feel at home. Nevertheless, if there's something we Italians are a bit envious about Spain (and France too) is space. Italy is overcrowded, particularly the North, where I live. So, good on you, Spain, emptiness is a great added value. Furthermore, Sergio Leone used to shoot all of his Spaghetti-Western movies in Spain for a good reason...

I love these vast empty areas in Spain. For someone who lives in densely populated Central Europe It gives you the feeling of riding through South America or Mexico or Arizona etc Quite thrilling and atmospheric. 🌵🦅

He mentions 45 min between towns. I just spent the last hour and a half driving 46miles (74km) to take my kids to school; like I do every morning. This Spain agriculture ring is right to my alley and sounds like an awesome place to live.

Climate also plays a part, if you drive through some of those areas is like traveling through a desert. Large dry fields with some sparse trees in extreme heat. I wouldn’t be surprised if in some decades we start seeing sand and dunes.

When I visited Asturias in the northern Spain, I was greeted with towns and villages nearly completely empty save for old people. Completely empty houses, towns with more wolves than children. All of the young people go to Madrid or Barcelona, leaving only the elderly in the towns. It’s sad, seeing such a beautiful place abandoned.

I think Spain is actually on to something here. Not everyone wants and not every area needs to be modernized. Many people like to be away from the big cities and want no part of all of that. One of the good parts of living in these less populated areas like this is that you notice far less when bad things happen in the rest of the world because of self reliance. Hank Jr made the song A Country Boy Will Survive about people like them for a reason.

Really good video! Good job

😂 I’m from Canada, and this is hilarious! You can drive 18 hours and still be driving across one province! Oooooh a 45 minute drive 😂😂😂😂😂😂

With the current recession and financial crises world wide i think getting just only a job isn't the best solution to attaining financial freedom

I really don't understand why you framed having areas of less density in a country as a bad thing. Spanish urbanism is great. Their cities are increasingly becoming dense, walkable and transit friendly. It is why their inter-city train system works well and is so great too. Centralizing amenities in fewer but larger cities with higher standards of living is more efficient, and the economies of the rural areas shift back to agriculture or nature preservation which actually serves a need.

Amazing and informative video👍👍

I came from one small city in those 10%, with a lot of rural area included in "serrania celtiberica". Of course I did not thought it was something kind of extraordinary to have such immense landscapes with only really small villages here and there, and living far away from big cities. But now I live in Germany in NRW which is the other extreme, with a lot of really big cities placed almost without any space between, and the villages... well those are not villages in my book XD. So now I can really notice such peculiarities of where i came from

As some of the comments say, this "underdeveloped" regions of Spain actually have a high quality of life, the only downside is that neighbors and public services are scarce

To a Canadian or an Australian (I've lived in both countries), this is highly amusing... As a pilgrim who's walked through Northern Spain from western France to Santiago, I greatly appreciated the (relative) emptiness of that part of the country. Even with the minimal number of urban centres along the way, I was never at a loss for cafés and decent food, however. There's absolutely no way you could do a thousand-kilometre walk anywhere in Canada or Australia and say the same thing...

Your video inspired me to visit the empty part of spain and explore it. In fact I am sitzing in the amazing town of Teruel right at this moment.😁

9:41 ooooooh you have no idea how much I have walked that street, my heart was broken twice there

Very cool insight from an outsider, but you missed a key thing: ever since the 60s a very large part of the economy has been devoted to tourism, which takes place on the coast and on the major cities. It is also a low added-value activity, and so workers cannot easily support families. This has led us away from industry (to some extent), key to a resilient economy. As we say in Spain, bread for today, hunger for tomorrow.

I don't even know how after 5+ years I still find every one of these documentaries interesting. You really do keep me engaged with topics I never thought I would care about.

my family lives in the empty space. Its beautyful. i hope it stays quite empty

Video, awesome. Just a lil input, is not /keltiberian/ but / θeltiberian/, θ is like TH in BOTH! :D

I'm an american but my dad is from Spain and my grandma specifically is from Serrania Celtiberica so I found this video a bit surprising. Having taken high speed rail and driven across spain I can confirm that huge swaths of land in the country are completely uninhabited apart from scattered small dense towns.

I love rural places, but its sad how they become abandoned. All my grandparents live in villages and both of them are increasingly empty, with most of the residents being older people. Its incredibly sad for old people to see how abandoned the houses and lands of people they once knew very well become, only to know thats goint to happen to their house and land, orchads and gardens, the very place in which they grew up in and in which their own parents grew up in. Its incredibly sad, especially since these places are so beautiful.

"Why 70% of Spain is Empty?" -mountains. "blah, blah, blah 15minutes. yes mountains."

I think you have forgotten the weather factor: in some of those areas it can reach -20 in winter and 40 in summer. In the Spanish coastal areas the climate is much more pleasant.

"Spain's economy is only slightly smaller than Russia's" Not for long.

Listening to this with the absolutely gorgeous scenery makes you think why wouldn't they give more focus to those areas. Although bringing all the best infrastructure and modern luxury like services to distant lowly populated areas is expensive, it might ease some issues of extremely highly populated areas. But would that beautiful scenery also suffer from bringing tech and industry. It might. So what's the best?

I’m More attracted to the authenticity in culture with the small towns that industry and commerce have forgotten

The "empty" part of Spain looks exactly like the California mountains. I can see why the Spanish explorers must have felt at home there.

I lived in the Donut, in a college town in the Region of Extremadura. But I was born in New York City. After I overcame the "culture shock" it really stole my heart. The "España vaciada" is so worth seeing. I dream of returning all the time.

I traveled to a village in the south by car and it was like hundreds of kilometers of desert (with trees but no other form of life)

Enlightening video. Thanks.

I visited the Serrania Celtiberica area when I was younger, and the food was probably some of the best in the whole of spain. My dad discovered Catalyud wines there and still drinks them to this day. 10/10 would recommend. Just make sure someone from spain is in your party because you need a spanish speaker, and sometimes people have accents/dialects which can lead to some confusion if your translator isn't used to spanish from spain.

We just spent 10 nights in Spain (Madrid, Sevilla and Barcelona) what an amazing trip it was. The people, countryside, cities, food and architecture were absolutely amazing and traveling by high-speed train really did show you just how empty the country side seemed to me at that time. Now I know why... very interesting. BTW, if you've never visited Spain, you should. 👍🏼

Love Spain from Bulgaria 🇧🇬♥️🇪🇸

This is the same everywhere, with small variations between how strongly it applies to each country or region. It's the common 90/10-rule: 90% of anything tends to represent 10% of something it should intuitively be fully correlated with. 90% of stock market value is likely to be in the top 10% most valuable companies with the other 10% being in the other 90%.

I'm from León, which is an actually decent-sized city for interior Spain standards, at about 122k people (and it's been decreasing since its peak in 1994 at about 141k people, just in 2010 the city's population was around 136k people, but the 2008-2013 crisis hit very hard here, so basically since 2010 we have been losing population like crazy, and it doesn't look like the trend may change in the future), and the province of León had its peak in the 1970s at around 670k people, in 2010 we had 510k people, whereas in 2020 the population was around 450k people, so the province of León lost around 60 THOUSAND inhabitants in TEN (!!) years. So this decreasing population has even reached provincial and regional capitals in the interior areas of Spain (Madrid and Zaragoza aside). Valladolid, the largest city and de iure capital in Castile and León, has around 296k people now, but barely 20-30 years ago it was at 320-330k inhabitants. In fact, just so you can figure out how both big and small Castile and León is, if it was a country, it would be larger than most EU countries size-wise, slightly larger than Portugal, Austria and Bulgaria and slightly smaller than Greece and Romania. All of that, with Slovenia's population (go look any of these countries in a map and you'll see just how mad it is). As others from "Emptied Spain" have mentioned in the comments, life is very good in these parts of the country. In fact, the same amount of money can go a longer way in León, Valladolid, Salamanca, Badajoz, Albacete or Huesca than it can in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Mallorca, Bilbao or San Sebastián. The thing is, getting opportunities to make the same money around these places is 1. Being born in a family that owns land or 2. Marrying someone whose family owns land or 3. Becoming a "funcionario" (public worker/civil servant). Any other options include migrating, either internally (Madrid, the Basque Country or anywhere near the coast) or externally (Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the USA...), which leads to a big Leonese diaspora elsewhere in Spain, especially in Madrid where around 80k people born in the province of León live (that's around 20% of the current province population and bigger than León's second biggest city, Ponferrada, which boasts 65k inhabitants). And our case isn't even the worst one. Other provinces, like Soria, Segovia, Teruel, Huesca, Zamora, Palencia, Cuenca or Cáceres actually have more people living outside their provinces than in their own provinces. And this is a small, yet big, difference. Just so you can figure out, for someone from demographically-thriving (not necessarily economically-thriving though) Andalusia or Valencia, places like Sanlúcar de Barrameda or Dénia are "pueblos" (villages). Yet for someone from the Emptied Spain like me, they sound like decent-sized cities, bigger than several province capitals. Hell, for someone from Seville, a place like Dos Hermanas might be a "pueblo", yet it's more populated than any interior province capital except perhaps Valladolid.

Hey, just an observation -- you begin the video by saying the population spread of Spain has catastrophic consequences. Then later you call it a "problem" but nowhere in the video is it actually explained why any of this is a problem. As farming technology advanced, you would expect that there would be less and less people needed in rural areas and that more people would move to big cities. Especially since the Spanish cities aren't as dense as others around the world, it seems they still have quite a ways to go before anything actually becomes a problem.

Sounds wonderful to me! I'm going there!

You draw the Celtiberic mountain system above Alicante-Murcia conurbation (3,5 inhabitants and 3rd in the country) 😂

As a spanish, it's very cool and interesting to watch a video about a foreign person explaining things about your country and giving their point of view, it's nice to imagine how people around the world would react about the information