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Jonathan In 1992, many things happened that put Spain in the tourism spotlight . The Seville Expo attracted thousands of visitors and the Barcelona Olympic Games the same, plus those who watched them on television. Both places became an attraction that would extend to a large part of the Peninsula, because taking advantage of the visit to visit various geographical points is quite common. These two events transformed both cities and also influenced how travel to the country would develop. Although another event also took place, small and only perceptible to those who experienced it, which would have tourist repercussions years later . Without anyone being able to foresee it. Aceredo Aceredo. By Estevoaei In January of that year, the residents of Aceredo , belonging to the municipality of Lobios (Ourense), saw how their town was flooded by water after the gates of the Lindoso reservoir, already belonging to Portugal but very close, were closed.
This reservoir, managed by Energías de Portugal, was built at the end of the 1950s due to an agreement between António de Oliveira Salazar and Francicso Franco (very fond of this type of construction). The inhabitants Colombia Mobile Number List of Aceredo lived their lives during those four decades that passed between the agreement and the flooding, surely without thinking that the day would come when they would lose their possessions to the water. But the surprising thing – it was not the only town that suffered the same fate – is that what happened was a kind of river Pompeii . If the Roman city was petrified in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD, this Galician town remained (more or less) standing under water. When Aceredo emerged Aceredo Aceredo. By Biddulph Photography Optimistic people think that even though reality comes from the side, you can always get something good out of any circumstance.
When in 2021 the drought ended with the water in the reservoir, Aceredo saw the light again and surprised everyone that he could see that part of what it had been remained almost whole . Houses, objects such as kitchen utensils or bicycles and even a fountain that, curiously, continued to provide water. It was something so impressive that what had once been a town began to receive visits from tourists who wanted to see it in person (basically, like in Pompeii). In November 2021, the mayor of Lobios declared to La Voz de Galicia , quite astonished, that: “ The amount of people who travel, especially on the weekend, to see Aceredo is brutal.” sorrel Sorcerer. By Biddulph Photography Furthermore, he maintained, in an exercise of unwavering optimism, that: “We have to look at the positive side of things. It is true that there is a nostalgic part, especially for the neighbors who had to leave their homes, but right now it is quite a claim." However, despite the fact that the perspective is different now, at the time the event was very traumatic for the inhabitants of the town. Many people did not want to leave their homes, so they refused to sell them. There were even those who carried out a hunger strike , but nothing had any effect.
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