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Rural exodus of the Priorat

la Vilella Alta, Priorat, Tarragona

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Rural exodus of the Priorat

Historical milestone · la Vilella Alta, Priorat, Tarragona

Image of la Vilella Alta, not of the place itself.

Between the phylloxera crisis at the end of the 19th century and the 1970s, the Priorat lost more than half its inhabitants, with villages falling from several hundred to just a few dozen residents. Whole neighborhoods were shut up and terraces left uncultivated.

1900-1970

Photo: Pacopac (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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