{"id":779,"date":"2023-03-20T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-spanish-ghost-town-that-should-be-underwater-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T07:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:36:06","slug":"the-spanish-ghost-town-that-should-be-underwater-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-spanish-ghost-town-that-should-be-underwater-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish &#39;ghost town&#39; that should be underwater \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k9R3SNo_7ow?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The tiny medieval town of Granadilla, Spain, was founded in the 9th Century AD. Up until the late 1950s it was home to around 1,000 people. Then, within a 10-year period, everyone was forced to leave. It has remained abandoned ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The town had been scheduled to flood, due to a new dam that had been built by Francisco Franco&#8217;s regime, and the former inhabitants were forced to leave their homes and relocate.<\/p>\n<p>But now, more than 50 years later, the flood waters have still not arrived \u2013 yet the original inhabitants of Granadilla are still forbidden from returning to their former homes.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Nacho Larumbe <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews #spain #history #travel<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k9R3SNo_7ow\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny medieval town of Granadilla, Spain, was founded in the 9th Century AD. Up until the late 1950s it was home to around 1,000 people. Then, within a 10-year period, everyone was forced to leave. It has remained abandoned ever since. The town had been scheduled to flood, due to a new dam that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}