. That is around £70,000 less than the price of the average home in the UK. For that price you get 44 homes, a hotel, a church, a school, a municipal swimming pool and a barracks building that used to house the civil guard. The village sits on the Portuguese border in the province of Zamora and is a three-hour drive from Madrid. Ronnie Rodríguez holding a "for sale" sign One of the things it lacks however, are inhabitants, having been abandoned for more than 30 years. Plans to revamp the ghost town were tabled in the early 2000s after it was bought, but they never got off the ground, the BBC reports. "The owner had the dream of having a hotel here but it was all put on hold," Ronnie Rodríguez, of Royal Invest, the company representing the owner, told the media outlet. "He would still like the project to come true." On Idealista, where it is listed for sale, the owner wrote: "I am selling because I am an urbanite and I cannot take care of the inheritance or donation." Salto de Castro was built by the electricity generation company Iberduero to house workers who built the reservoir nearby in the 1950s, but it became deserted after the project was completed. It was previously put up for sale, but vandalism to the buildings and a €6.5million price tag clearly put buyers off. Idealista predicts that it would cost around €2million to bring it up to scratch. The village could be yours for £227,000 ( Wiki Commons) Salto de Castro is not the only Spanish town to be abandoned because of a reservoir. The beautiful 9th century tow){kind=link}
Salto de Castro, north-western Spain, is up for sale for just £227,000 and includes 44 homes, a hotel, a church, a school, a municipal swimming pool and a barracks building that used to house the civil guard
If you’ve ever dreamed of being mayor or a property magnate, then you may be in luck.
An entire abandoned village is up for sale in Salto de Castro, north-western Spain, for the bargain price of just â¬260,000 (£227,000).
That is around £70,000 less than the price of the average home in the UK.
For that price you get 44 homes, a hotel, a church, a school, a municipal swimming pool and a barracks building that used to house the civil guard.