Abandoned village with 44 houses, hostel and swimming pool on the market for £227,000

The current owner of Salto de Castro, located on the border with Portugal in the province of Zamora, wanted to transform the village into a tourist spot but did not failed because of the eurozone crisis

The Spanish village of Salto de Castro is for sale (

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A Spanish village abandoned for more than three decades is now up for sale at an asking price of £227,000 (€260,000).

Salto de Castro, in northwestern Spain, has 44 accommodations, a bar, a hostel, a church, a school with several classrooms and a municipal swimming pool.

There is also a barracks building which once housed the Civil Guard, according to the property listing on the Spanish property site.

The village, located on the border with Portugal in the province of Zamora, is only a three-hour drive from the Spanish capital Madrid.

It has most of the things you'd expect from a small town, except for the locals who abandoned it over 30 years ago.

The city has been uninhabited for more than three decades since the closure of the hydroelectric plant built in the 1950s (

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People left town after a hydroelectric plant built in the 1950s was shut down, reports say.

The current owner of Salto de Castro bought it in the early 2000s because he wanted to convert it into a tourist spot.

However, the project could not prosper due to the Eurozone crisis and the settlement could not be repopulated.

The owner, who is now over 80, wrote on Idealista that he wanted to sell the town because he is a city dweller and can no longer take care of it.