Activists in Spain ordered to give up attempt to revive abandoned village

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

An abandoned village in Spain has been condemned to its third and final death after the rural activists who occupied it 10 years ago gave up the struggle to bring it back to life.

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.