Tour the Abandoned Village of Janovas Spain

https://buymeacoffee.com/uncorkedinru... Today we are going to Explore the abandoned village of Janovas Spain. This little village has a crazy story. Janovas is a Spanish village in Aragon that was forcibly evacuated and partially destroyed in the 1960s for a dam project that was never completed. After decades of neglect, the project was officially canceled in 2005, and a legal process to return land and property began, sparking a new era for the village where residents and their descendants are now beginning to rebuild and restore it. The forced evacuation and destruction The project: The Spanish government planned to build a large hydroelectric dam and reservoir in the 1950s that would have flooded the valley and the villages of Janovas, Lavelilla, and Lacort. Forced eviction: Compulsory expropriations began in the early 1960s, and by 1984, the last families were forced out. Destruction: Despite the project being unfeasible and ultimately canceled, the company responsible, Iberduero (now Iberdrola), began to demolish unoccupied houses with explosives, even when families still lived nearby. They also destroyed crops, felled trees, closed the school, and cut off water and electricity to make the village uninhabitable. The "ghost dam": The reservoir was never built, leaving the village abandoned and its residents without compensation for decades.    • Road-trip! Spain to Artouste France (Highe...