Acebuchal - The story of "Pueblo El Fantasma" - Ghost Village Part 1

There are many stories about Acebuchal.

The story most frequently spoken is that Acebuchal was the place where the resistance movement, hiding, the survivors who fought against Franco was the place left by the Franco men.

Some people say that the city was abandoned because residents were simply seeking a more comfortable and better life.

In fact, the village only admitted the ruins until 1998 when Antonio "El Jumbo" returned home with his wife. In order to realize the lifetime dream of rebuilding Virtudes, Acebuchal,

I live in the next valley between Torrox and Compèta, I went to a quest to find the truth about El Acebuchal.
In the local bar, I meet Antonio Garcia Sanchez behind the bar. His parents, Virtudes and Antonio, returned in 1998 to realize the dream of rebuilding Acebuchal. Young Antonio is only 30 years, but he can still tell the story of Acebuchal.

- He says that the village has always become a part of my family's life. They have never abandoned their dream of coming back. My grandmother was born here and my mother took me a lot in my childhood and taught me the house where my grandmother was born.

I ask one of the rumors that I believe about Acebuchal.

- Antonio says that people are calling many different names to the village, the Spaniard calls Acebuchal "Pueblo el Fantasmas" - ghost villages have been abandoned for nearly 50 years and abandoned. The citizen left the village for Franco. Franco introduced the law that villagers can stay in the village on that day, but had to go out before it got dark ... in other words, at night ... no one had a car So the residents had to walk every night from Frigiliana, Torrox, or Competa to Acebuchal and had to go back again in the middle of the night ... they still vegetables overlooking all their livestock and villages.

When asked if the occupier was a resistant fighter or supported resistance, Antonio answered. - They were just very, very poor farmers. If they had fought against Franco or if they supported the resistance movement they would have been killed. It banned Franco from staying there in the night because there was a constant fight between Guardia Civil and the resistance movement and it was hiding in the mountains and Guardia Civil wanted to fully control the area strategically It was.

Ultimately, the constant conflicts and restrictions imposed on the Acebuchal inhabitants allowed them to eventually leave their village.

- But all people took a small piece of Acebuchal with them in my mind, Antonio says - everything dreams back to where they were at home.