Ghost village emerges in Spain as drought empties reservoir

A view of Aceredo in Spain that was once submerged by the Limia river in the 1990s. Curious tourists have been visiting the ancient village to check out the ruins. — Reuters

A ghost village that has emerged as drought has nearly emptied a dam on the Spanish-Portuguese border is drawing crowds of tourists with its eerie, grey ruins.

With the reservoir at 15% of its capacity, details of a life frozen in 1992, when the Aceredo village in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region was flooded to create the Alto Lindoso reservoir, are being revealed once more.