The inhabitants of “empty Spain” destitute in the face of an unprecedented phenomenon of depopulation. In certain villages, only a few people still reside.
This is where the first European political movement, focused on the revitalization of these areas, emerged. Diego Castillejo wanted to leave his hometown of Cuenca (located in the Castile-La Mancha region, in central Spain) as a computer scientist. “I realized that nowhere else in the world would I have the same quality of life and the same tranquility,” he explains.