Salto de Castro: Spanish village on sale for €260,000

For anyone dreaming of selling up and moving to the country, however astir buying an full village?

Salto de Castro, successful north-western Spain, is up for merchantability and the asking terms is €260,000 (£227,000; $259,000).

Located connected the borderline with Portugal successful the state of Zamora and a three-hour thrust from Madrid, Salto de Castro has galore of the buildings you would expect to find successful a tiny Spanish town.

They see 44 homes, a hotel, a church, a school, a municipal swimming excavation and adjacent a barracks gathering that utilized to location the civilian guard.

But what it does not person are inhabitants. Salto de Castro has been abandoned for much than 3 decades.

The proprietor bought the colony astatine the opening of the 2000s, with the volition of converting it into a tourer spot. However, the eurozone situation prevented the program from flourishing.

"The proprietor had the imagination of having a edifice present but it was each enactment connected hold," said Ronnie Rodríguez, of Royal Invest, the institution representing the owner. "He would inactive similar the task to travel true."

It has attracted interest, with much than 50,000 visits since it was listed a week agone astatine this price.

Mr Rodríguez said that 300 radical person expressed an involvement successful buying, with inquiries from Russia, France, Belgium and the UK. One imaginable purchaser has already enactment wealth down to reserve it, helium said.

Salto de Castro was built by the energy procreation institution Iberduero to location families of the workers who built the reservoir adjacent door, from the aboriginal 1950s.

But the inhabitants moved distant aft its completion and the colony was wholly abandoned successful the precocious 1980s.

The country surrounding it is portion of what has go known arsenic "emptied Spain" - sparsely populated agrarian areas which deficiency galore of the services recovered successful towns and cities.

Salto de Castro has been enactment up for merchantability previously, for arsenic overmuch arsenic €6.5m. However, with nary buyers and galore of the buildings vandalised, the terms has plummeted.

The asking terms of €260,000 is capable lone for a one-bedroom flat successful well-heeled areas of Madrid oregon Barcelona.

But the eventual purchaser of Salto de Castro could request heavy pockets, astatine slightest successful bid to pull visitors.

According to Idealista: "The concern required successful bid to marque the colony 100% workable and to go profitable would not transcend €2m."