Spanish activists end attempt to revive abandoned village after 10 years

Project to revive 1,000-year-old village of Fraguas ended as activists face fines of up to €110,000

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Fraguas’s first death came in the late 1960s, when it was expropriated by the Franco regime to make way for a huge reforestation programme; its second when it was used as an army training ground.

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