Village life

THERE are 36 traditional Spanish villages in inland Malaga Province looking for people to move there.

Malaga, in Andalucia, is promoting its towns and villages to attract foreign buyers and staunch the exodus of Spaniards looking for work, the ‘empty Spain’ phenomenon.

The website ‘vente a vivi ra un pueblo’ (come and live in a village) showcases the beautiful tranquillity of rural life on the Iberian peninsula.

There are 12 areas where towns exist that are being promoted, from Andalucia, Aragon, Canary Islands, Castilla la Mancha, Castile and Leon, Madrid, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, The Roja, Murcia and Asturias.

On the platform you can explore work options, health care support, business plans, with the website featuring a town of the week, this week is Villarrodrigo (Jaén).

The website offers information on the number of inhabitants, educational centres, medical centres, internet access, public transport details and grants for entrepreneurs as well as work availability.

lencia, Alberto Galloso, explains that as particularly electricity and food prices have increased, that “hoteliers have to transfer these costs little by little.”

Sixty per cent of the visitors in Spanish hotels this April will be foreigners. Spain will be most popular with the British this Easter, followed by the French, Germans, Italians and the Dutch.

Booking.com said that the most popular Spanish cities with both domestic and foreign visitors will be Madrid, Sevilla, Granada and Barcelona.