Village for Sale
Source: Wikipedia (Balles2601) Salto de Castro: Spanish village on sale for €260,000 For anyone dreaming of sell ing up and moving to the country, how about buy ing an entire village? Salto de Castro, in north-western Spain, is up for sale and the asking price is €260,000 (£227,000; $259,000). Located on the border with Portugal in the province of Zamora and a three-hour drive from Madrid, Salto de Castro has many of the buildings you would expect to find in a small Spanish town. They include 44 homes, a hotel, a church, a school, a municipal swimming pool and even a barracks building that used to house the civil guard. But what it does not have are inhabitants. Salto de Castro has been abandoned for more than three decades. The owner bought the village at the beginning of the 2000s, with the intention of converting it into a tourist spot. However, the eurozone crisis preve...