Villages across Spain used to be full of life, work, celebration, places where people loved, worshipped and mourned their dead. That changed drastically in the 1950s when an exodus began in remote ...

The Sacred Art of the Daily Pause Mediterranean countries, particularly Spain and Italy, have long embraced afternoon sleep ...

Setenil de las Bodegas, in the heart of Andalusia, is a troglodyte village that seems to have been literally carved out of the rock. It's fascinating for its unique architecture, its white streets ...

In the heart of Extremadura, surrounded by olive groves and quiet hills, lies Hernán Pérez, a small village of 411 inhabitants that mirrors much of rural Spain's story. It's a sunny morning when Pau ...

As Halloween approaches, one Andalusian village is embracing its dark side. Soportújar, near Granada, has reinvented itself as “the village of witches,” where broomsticks, cauldrons and even Baba Yaga ...

While cities such as Barcelona grapple with a mounting number of visitors, rural regions across the country have been facing depopulation for many decades. But the tide might be turning, as many ...

The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a ...

A government program in Spain is training African migrants as shepherds to tackle rural depopulation and job shortages. Osam Abdulmumen, a 25-year-old migrant from Sudan, is among those learning ...