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On my journey to the highlands of Soria I never imagined coming across such large towns completely desolate and abandoned Seeing these towns which once had hundreds of inhabitants but now lie in this state in such an incredible enclave It makes me reflect on the kind of society we are creating If the aerial view had already struck me walking its streets only deepened the impact Today in complete silence it made my mind envision the bustling life of these streets in their prime Children playing People flocking to Mass Even imagined the hardships and fears of these people at once housed people long ago now completely abandoned Even amidst such ruin there are still people who make me feel I'm not alone in my view of life Sometimes I'm grateful to life for giving me the chance to experience these places which connect me with something deeply profound within myself The sense of freedom I feel while exploring these places makes me feel truly uncomfortable when I return to the city Alright everyone check this out I've just arrived in the town you saw up there in the aerial shot And well I ran into Carlos the only resident who lives here who has left us utterly surprised because he's telling us the story of why he ended up here and everything related to it I had a brief conversation with him first And right now he's showing us around the town pointing out houses some little shed that he knows a story about why it collapsed and the like Because Franco was apparently involved here wasn't he The army They conducted tests here after the area became uninhabited They entered and planted bombs to test the bombs in the houses making the destruction even worse It's astonishing to walk through these streets You must feel a sense of emptiness looking at them right This was the blacksmith's shop Was this the blacksmith's shop here Here the man who lives here found tools from ancient forge The thing is there's nothing left from there anymore Well you're always here aren't you You're the only one who lives here every single day Yes So there are people who come and go right I sleep here every night and the others come and go And well there are a couple of guys who sleep in a bit but hey every day it's just me Incredible Now we're going to the laundry room The laundry room Where was the laundry room At the old washhouse where he used to let the water run like this the irrigation channels flowed down from up there It would trickle down and eventually break apart down here Wave And then this water would emerge in winter at the same temperature as in summer Since it came up from underground filtered through the earth it emerged only moderately warm And then the ladies would say Ah the water coming in is hot I don't know what's going on But that's exactly what it was Geothermal right Could it be It uses a bit of that the Earth's heat That's right But once they stopped using the channels and everything above ground No more water no more leaks since it no longer breaks And there's a boy fixing the mill That's why it's like this too He handles the upkeep of this Well just minor maintenance And what is it From the town's former inhabitants No it's about sobriety—it's a friend from around here That's sad and here it really makes you want to blow your image wide open Be careful with these legs There the fountain burst forth Let it be seen already Here look yes And here's the pool where all the water used to flow and where the ladies would do their laundry Jolín what a massive laundry area they had It's just heartbreaking The tree fell there and it's far away Not even for the wood They were washing on their knees Exactly as is it seems so The uncles at least have the laundry room by now Yes yes it's elevated It's older than the usual ones This is a laundry facility Look at how the entrance was constructed It wasn't quite that thought out You know what it reminds me of The Roman theme The Roman bathhouse vibe all of it right at ground level It gives me that feeling Not because it would be too open Yes yes at least from antiquity That's where you said water used to come in Water came out from there from the fountain Yes that's where it burst forth This is where the water gushed out But I already told you all that water breaking through was seepage from the irrigation channels above Amazing dude It's still here You can see exactly where the water used to fall Yes yes it's right there And there might even be a little water because when it rains some will seep in and eventually drip down in a few drops It's amazing dude If you don't teach us this it's impossible That's precisely why I convinced you to Take advantage of it and see what the town has to offer good Yes yes because we've already been seeing the streets but this part here And what you're about to see next is going to blow your mind What are we going to see The windmill Yes You're going to lose your mind over it Let's check the opening where the water used to fall to turn the wheel The wheel And generate electricity This one really stuck here like a stone in the water It's sealed everything inside completely—no water gets in It's done an exceptional job I like it when people get involved and recover things Look this one up here was the first The first batch of water Yes yes it looks good doesn't it Yes yes but everything else also came down right here It fell right here The thing is you can see the species from here Completely full of water and from here they said they' d pour some of the water over there into the other hole But is that all for the hand Of course of course And if you stand there and see a My goodness it's carved right into the rock huh Perfectly utilized You might notice but there's a hole here carved into the rock downward but it's extremely dark and we clearly can't descend Now we're finally going down to see it from below We see it from below but of course up here it's impossible to show them the hole in the rock that's right here These people were working Have we shown them the irrigation channel Yes yes the water used to flow this way Coming from that damn village over there huh Four kilometers this way All along the slope Incredible There was also an opening there leading to the other cavity we're heading to now Yes the mark is still on the wall—can you see it The valve they had to open and close controlled the flow of water I'd never seen it carved into the stone before It's blown me away right You're about to lose your mind when you see this Indeed it tells us we're about to be even more amazed so let's start winding down This is the other trench It's scary isn't it It's a little unsettling The sheer scale of what they had constructed here is impressive isn't it I don't give a damn about the sea Look at this well The water used to come through here And it's right here now But it's dug straight into the rock How much drop could there be Here No no from above Because naturally the water builds up force from the Of course from the village three and a half kilometers away Yes but from where they open the Near where the village well is roughly From there onward So many liters so many liters The drop that's there Imagine that this powered a wheel grinding wheat and generated light in a turbine further downstream No no you can already see the volume of water that had to come through here It's astonishing But the work involved in carving that stone— Or well what really impresses me is drilling the hole right there Yes no well you'll see the work now because it's the vault down here and the stones are tightly pressed against each other with no mortar or anything—stone against stone Dad dad the whole roof Stone against stone Let's go there and see for ourselves From the dragon Well this one's for Look at the ceiling—that's what matters To bring you up to speed this was the electricity one right Yes electricity The one they used for electricity I'll install lighting since I'm already bringing power Look it still has something inside Just look at this cave huh They've done it here Look at the ceiling Look man Look at the stonework Those who can appreciate it Looking at stone against stone as he used to tell us This is madness isn't it And look it's still all here The fence is still there everything The fence everything No most of it's already been shot They've taken him away But he's still fairly intact Even the bats Amazing dude Imagine the power the water must have had to move something like that huh **** me go ahead and try it Nothing nothing but it's amazing Amazing really huh And the cave I mean It's incredible right Of course that's what he was telling us That it's not You see it's stone against stone And what about the kid who stayed behind at the mill—where is he Is he going to live there or No he's coming here He comes on weekends and works the three days when he's not working But when he doesn't have work for those three days he's now doing quite well since he comes Right and now let's check the one below The one below and the bridge because the bridge is the roof is just like this meaning the chest It's stone upon stone You need to be a bit more careful here—this thing could catch fire any second It's engineering genius Absolutely it's brutal engineering It really reminds me of the Roman era honestly seriously Moving so much stone There's nothing like that in Asturias I don't think so Neither do I The problem is that the bridge won't be very noticeable It's there well you can tell there's a bridge but There's too much water We can't go in We could enter but we'd get soaked Yeah I don't have footwear It would be quite interesting because it's a larger cavity than the one we just saw and the ceiling is also vaulted in that way so being bigger What a shame You just need to see that arch Nothing just looking at the other one gives you a real idea of how those stones are held in place And was this the mill or not This was the mill It was the mill The olive press is the one that doesn’t give us time to see Oh even so it still moved Then the water was working moving things The generator the mill and a threshing machine besides No the trujal belongs to someone else I'll clarify for those watching us what the trujal actually is because I think many people don't know The olive press is the heart of the olive processing From the olives Because here it is tradition The topic of olive trees and that sort of thing No This is the only town in Soria with olive trees About two thousand of them Which aren't tended to They're angry but Well back in their day it would have been acceptable Of course in their day That's why they did Exactly Here All the olive and everything right here Carlos is being brought to see another part of the village It was also for pigs This was for keeping pigs here Yes there's the feeder right there Here then are the animals And I don't know what else One of these little caves It had I don't know if it was that one with like paintings or something similar Or maybe holes I just can't remember This has to be it That one That one was That one I don't know There's one that has The walls have something And likewise is the roof that is The roof that is But come on these were In short they were pigpens On the rock that is They're nice and cool huh I don't know if they're here living better than anyone else No no I'm blown away by these little gocheras They were here too carved into the stone beneath the house I don't think I've ever seen anything like it Did you see it With pigsties carved into the rock That's too bad man I never would And well as you can see there's one little house that's a bit more Those who come on weekends yes I didn’t bring these beams myself because they said I don’t know what and now they’re already rotting Well because here you reuse I imagine all the beams and the wood and everything else lying around This is already Well this can be reused But from here comes some damn good wood Well this crew already used quality back in the day He didn't use quality Not this village either There's another village here that does but this one was very humble you know There was a lot of activity and that's because there would be raw material fruits look and this is a cherry tree Huge From cherry trees Yes this one right here Across from us that one over there It's angry but this entire valley would be filled with fruit trees There were two fields rising up to o work the fields And there in In that pine grove over there Right there At the very top Yes There's a spring They said the water comes out so icy so icy that if you put in a leg of lamb it just falls apart Yes It's so cold And did they have orchards on that slope over there Yes they went up my neighbor told me He left here around eight years ago and he used to say they kept going up up with the food just to be there eating and all that Hostia as if to go down and eat No no it takes away your appetite Yes yes It really takes away your appetite because you're not appreciating it Well here you need to descend practically like this straight down and then climb back up everything I once tried to climb that slope and got no farther than halfway and from this halfway point I could see the other one rising up ahead and it seems like that's how it always is From here you can 't but when you're there you're there— you simply can't They tried to reclaim it a few years ago but in the end it remained out of reach And it just collapsed These were blocks weren't they No this was already residential This was residential Yes And whether you appreciate it or not huh Maybe down below there was some sort of enclosure Ah look yes there was a little pen right here Yes but the stairs are still visible you know All the way down they all had stalls I'm just going to check this way for a second out of curiosity because look the stairs of the house you know Look Look look The kitchen is here There the kitchen is There's still some wood left here Amazing mancho Look at the cabinet right here on the wall The thing is they were houses entirely made of stone you know I think we can go up to see the highest part No there's nothing They're completely empty But well the distribution they had We've just come out of this one here and are now going to enter this one they're telling me is a bit better There used to be a bar in this town And yes they sold oh yes even tobacco and everything Yes oysters this one's really pretty huh Look look Even the donkey stuff is here Damn it' s right here—the donkey stuff it's true And what did they keep here Probably straw A feeding trough right Yes No no To store the straw Ah that's where they kept it But it didn't take up much space did it Just to store it Man they wouldn't have needed this place for that Not even for four chickens that might be here or forget it—this was probably a kitchen No not a kitchen because of that because of the livestock area It's funny isn 't it I think those blocks were always down here right They came in here and cleaned it up o try to fix it but then they did nothing well they cleaned it up There's a closet here huh They were expensive these are the coolers Ah so that's a cooler Of course Well look that one's for placing here In the fridge damn it Of course that'd be just his luck If I were in the house I mean how could you not be fresh-faced if this It's all built into the stone At the lower part of the village it's the houses are built into the stone and designed around it Look this one is pretty I'm telling you here that they painted this Look this one still has the battery I had completely forgotten about this one Check it out now see This pile is one of those early concrete ones Let' s see Damn Yes yes These are the ones that show up In the old houses of Asturias Yes well look this is the house Ah and here it is me searching for the fireplace Yeah here it is look Damn this house is really great huh The thing is it came in from above like this Let's keep going up See how it'll turn out What a kitchen kid so unusual huh Ah it's not climbing up But look how beautiful this house is dude It's really narrow and super tall you know Yeah tiny Well look here I think we can get out through here I'm blown away by the layout — it's like walking through a cave do you get it It's already getting a bit chilly in here Look there are newspapers over there See how they're making use of this beam—it's curious isn't it True look at that It's already bent into shape o put it here as reinforcement what would this be for this separation they have here which one this one i think this is for inserting The corn when they picked it or somethinglikethat —like crates like eggs Funny thing dude This is what I was telling you earlier — I'm not sure if I just mentioned it— these are nests that were sealed shut and then they 'd take the eggs In summer they made omelets from the birds ' eggs They nested right here— unbelievableAbsolutely unbelievable man I'm not sure if you see it clearly but they look like ceramic vessels still preserved there and you can clearly tell—they're vessels Yes yes They took advantage of this What they did was nest the birds here then uncorked the nest took the eggs In the very same kitchen I mean brutal Closed off from the outside they would enter nest and when the time came when it was breeding season the whole village And they made tortillas Amazing Yes I've been told that it had the river had fish Oh yes they had everything come on Among the orchards the farmland Here's the river Right here indeed Here there was practically less fish Well they had the river fish Yes the blue fish You mean yes But this house is worth saving You’ve got to put a lot of guts into this one Look The upper beams are badly corroded the sides are damaged and they are in very poor condition Now what are you taking us to To the part of Now that we've arrived at the square The central square right What used to be the town square Here in this house Now then where's the house Where is the house This one damn it Now they're not visible But previously there was a native hive of bees from here That hive had always been here Now they're gone That bee came because of the Asian hornet and was it in that gap in the wall there I don't know where it was getting in Yes through there or yes there's a gap covered up there I don't know but a tiny hive of the damn thing I ate honey from that hive One of those guys took it out And this purple this reddish this dark-skinned impressive This brunette is stunning —truly unforgettable you've never seen her like in your entire life This is the square Exactly what the association members did closing it off for their own celebrations Phew Amazing isn't it Look at the church from the other side since we saw it from the back Looking at it from here huh Well because inside they’ve got it locked down tight—these guys over here with their wood and junk and all sorts of stuff The tower Look it doesn't have the tower Three stone faces filled with water No unbelievable Unbelievable unbelievable Since you have the little fountain It's always full of water isn' t it Almost always In winter it freezes and in summer if there's a bit of intense heat it dries up Is it drinkable Can it be consumed or It can be drunk but I wouldn't drink it myself Because this comes from a spring What lies beyond this mountain flows down then plunges into a pool and from there travels through a pipe all the way here So then If there's a dead animal left lying there in the middle Of course you risk catching a disease I've never had anything happen to me But I didn't do it myself I wanted to show you the church from this angle because you've already seen it—specifically we viewed it from behind when went looking for Carlos because we knew he lived around here Well this area is quite curious due to the arches it has You see it has a bow there another one there at the entrance and you were telling me about the tower right The tower that has something special about it The tower has three stone faces and one made of adobe Wow Not to mention the altitude it's at—absolutely insane You mentioned this before but when were watching you at home of course lifting the stones little by little is easy but when you're already doing it reaching the very top as if the stones Double the order Double the order huh Look at that it looks like the bell tower 's about to collapse this way but it's been holding on like this It's like this I think it'll be appreciated more from here The box is like this—it's become a bit larger At this moment Look you can see from here that it's already giving way Once this yields yes this is doomed That’s going to fall this way and the entire tower is going to collapse this way What a shame But of course they’ve tried They've tried to pull it down You know They've climbed up there with picks—these percussion-type ones—but it's just so damn hard at they have been unable to To avoid putting the people passing by at risk right This entire face is made of adobe See how cracked and deteriorated it is Yes because the adobe is detaching from the stone It's not that it's going to collapse Maybe it's what it's doing that's making the tower more fragile isn't it And then it just falls apart Have a face like adobe one side and the other like I don't think it affects him Why would they do this man Leaving one side of the face solo de adobe I don't know man What's the point Saving money It's just that They'd run out of stone No but only one side besides That is of course On the sides that are least protected is where they placed it On the eastern side More protected Of course of course That makes sense ButStill I don't know And to wrap up the video Carlos wants to show us something he discovered well an expert in this field which is that this type of stone What was in this town were dinosaur footprints Dinosaur footprints were discovered And he says Let' s just remove this like this This This here is a dinosaur footprint So is this one And these holes too All of this are dinosaur tracks Of course he told me an expert who's come by here looking for traces and apparently this used to be the riverbed the mud of the ground And he's managed to capture here the footprint of a dinosaur that only a professional would recognize Of course we here you'd walk by and It's a normal ripple I just have to use my imagination However in the stone I have it's clearly visible There's no And it was stuck in the wall of the house If I don't notice it I'll push it back inside again They had buil With that stone the wall of your house Yes yes that's right Incredible This is where he lives in that little cottage he's restoring And it has brought us here so we can see the mark it found in its home You can see the effort it's putting in because here nothing reaches Not even the roads reach here nothing gets through He's brought barrels Well it's brutal Virgilio knows what kind of work there is here because in his cabin he knows what it's like But here he 's amazed because this is secluded you've seen it before In a stunning location a secluded aerial view captured by chance Is that the fern No Yes the fern The fern He kicked it hard to move it and it fell over and opened up And look Bloody hell But it looks incredibly clear Damn So beautiful wait Put it here in the shade so it shows Look over there look how beautiful This one looks better So did you kick it all the way up here Yeah accidentally It was like this a area where I was working and I slipped a bit and fell open and I saw it You were quite observant because not everyone would have noticed Pay attention to that She's quite a beauty Someone saw her who isn't an expert but knows more than I do and even they can't identify what kind of insect it is Blast It shows up really well huh One finger another finger and another finger right here Yes and what's surprising is that they're not like the usual ones at's how they are like webbed It's as if it were a as though it weren't as though there were three fingers as though it were a claw practically Instead of a I don 't know Of course the grip would come out here You can see what it is—the shape of the finger It's clearly not herbivorous They told me It shouldn't have been a herbivore because herbivores are different more rounded or something like that They tricked me Amazing Well here I was in one of these In one of the stones of your house huh Yes yes I threw the stones o make them right again and a new era has already begun Well then Carlos Now to wrap up completely the video I know you're going to ask me how it was that you made that life-changing move Why have you come here Because I love people who do this and I love coming to meet you because there's a deeper meaning behind all of it In summary because I had long ago awakened from the illusion that is the society in which people usually live and my alternative It was there Come on my alternative the one I could let go of of course And so I said I also have to say the idea was to finish much earlier and have more time Knowing myself Yes having time for yourself Of course But in the end I've been a bit of a slave to the truth At first you You feel strong as if only you can do it— but that's the mind The body is something else Act differently and it becomes nearly impossible for one person alone But you are the clear example that even though it's hard here you are and life goes on Of course because the moment you arrive and make yourself a small space To begin with and as you gradually settle into that space you no longer need anything else and you keep adjusting until it becomes increasingly effortless do more things and since there's no one else pulling on you and of course if you're working if you bring the materials from the start of the village then on that day you can't work because you're already rented out If you start working climb up the scaffold climb down the scaffold climb up the scaffold again with the pots and pans Just you everything Of course you have to cook you have to sweep at least a little tidy yourself up take a shower you have to and in the end It's piling up to the point where just being presentable is a struggle let alone managing to pack a suitcase Exactly You have to fight it hard Yes but still I keep encouraging people because when I meet you I see that in your minds coherent thoughts not this society that every day seems to be destroying itself If it's visible if it's visible You're self-sufficient here—practically speaking you have to buy things but you don't rely on society as much as those of us in the city do Of course you have to give up so many things you no longer have clarity not in a city where bills consume you they consume you completely and you no longer have anything left a small indulgence of switching things up a bit having a couple of beers a day a couple of coffees and when you add it all up by month's end and the 200 bucks and the transportation and going places and everything else and in the end it just doesn' t add up—you end up spending more constantly switching back and for and vices that what life itself truly is really then It's simply not giving a stone to the one hitting me with it not handing the stick to the one beating me with it But it's precisely that which makes you see They're giving you a false sense of security they're giving you things the consumerism you talk about creates needs in you so you'll spend it's because from the very beginning they've deceived you From the very beginning they've deceived you because they've educated you to either study or work if you give any other answer it's trouble because if you're not studying You have to be working—come on I'm telling you about those born in the 70s that was the deal exploited even if they don't pay you you still have to work And that's just not how it works — that's just not how it works — you end up here today and you're already worn out by the time you're fifty because of course you started working with sacks at an early age The 50-kilogram bags of cement are now 25 kilograms and even those 25-kilogram bags end up breaking on you—just imagine what the 50-kilogram ones are like Of course they tell you not a damn thing now about retirement later because life expectancy is longer the longer your life will be You've just been sitting around don't even get me started on those who've actually worked life expectancy none of that matters my uncle died at 65 and still collected his benefits What a damn retirement—spending your whole life working only to die without ever truly knowing yourself so consumed by work and look It happened to come my way So wrapped up in work that when I had holidays I didn’t know what to do—I’ d just stay home watching damn TV and going to McDonald’ s to eat That’s it I don’t give a damn about holidays—those are what I work for and in the end of course you end up working through your holidays working all the time because it just doesn’t add up anymore It doesn't reach you anymore if I'm telling you if you've got a little habit it no longer reaches you that's really messed up Well then family I'm going to wrap up this video see you around here I hope you've really enjoyed getting to know especially Carlos and of course Virgilio He's going to keep talking with him for a while because they're brainstorming together—you know he's involved in the cabin project and I think they're going to come up with something great Some really interesting things I'll leave my social media links around here for anyone who wants to follow me and support me and enjoys the channel's content see you in the next video