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This is the first of three pictures taken almost in the same spot. Valdeverdeja is a pure spanish village that was suddenlys left by most of its inhabitants, who ran away seeking for a better life in the seventies. Once 7.000 souls, now there are just 500, but they take care of the village.
So, it is almost frozen in time and you can find everyting as it was 40 years ago.
All these pictures were taken handheld.
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Extremadura (Estremaura in Extremadura and the fala). It is a Spanish autonomous community located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is composed of the two largest provinces in Spain: Cáceres yBadajoz. Extremadura bounded on the north by the provinces of Salamanca, Ávila (Castilla y León), south conHuelva, Sevilla and Cordoba (Andalusia), on the east, with Toledo and Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha) and west conPortugal. Its capital is Mérida (Augusta Emerita old), the city recognized by the Statute of Autonomy as the seat of the Government of Extremadura.
