Castrovita spa and bottling plant

This post is dedicated the the old Fuente Sayud spa, located in the minucipality of Castromonte (Valladolid), and the Castrovita bottling plant wich was built next to it. The spa was open to the public until the 60´s, and the bottling plant continued its activity almost thirty years more. The high nitrite concentration in the water forced the sanitary authorities to shut down the plant, considering that mineral water unsafe for human consumption....

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Abandoned villages in Segovia

Rural depopulation is always a threat for the smallest villages. Sometimes it is due to poverty, sometimes due to expropriations, and there are even some cases of supernatural tales explaining how people were forced to leave their homes. This report is dedicated to a couple of villages in the province of Segovia: San Miguel de Neguera and La Alameda. San Miguel de Neguera The village is located near Sebúlcor, at the edge of the Hoces del...

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Abandoned beet sugar refinery

It is time to review our visit to this huge beet sugar factory. The size is impressive: more than 17 hectares (over 170.000 square metres) and 4.5 Km long including part of the railway. It was built the 4th June 1942 in order to expand the influence area of the Compañía de Industrias Agrícolas (Agrarian Industries Company), recently merged with Azucarera del Jalón (Jalón Sugar Company). In 1991 the machinery was updated, but the factory ceased its...

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