The sad fate of the ghost town in which 5,000 people died in the Civil War: “It could disappear”

01/15/2025

Updated at 7:03 p.m.

Extreme cold threatened in Zaragoza, between five and seven degrees below zero, but fortune has smiled on us. Marta Beltrán, a worker at the local tourism office, says that it is a “good day” in the remains of the Belchite Old Town. «He hasn’t caught us…

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About the author
Manuel P. Villatoro

Graduate in Journalism and lover of the past. Co-author of ‘What they have never told you about D-Day’ and other essays. APCR Journalism Award 2020 and collaborator of several specialized magazines.