I write novels and make visual art from keyboard marks and negative space. Across forms, my work is after one thing: the translation of grace into language.
Four stone houses on Spain's pilgrim routes from €93,000 — a medieval house in Mondoñedo, a restored complex where the Camino passes by the front door, and more. Last year, the official count from the cathedral’s Pilgrim’s Office of people who walked the Camino into the
If you read this newsletter, you are a person who has at least daydreamed about buying a piece of another country because it is beautiful and cheaper than home.
Emptiness, it turns out, is everyone's project right now. There are vacant houses across the globe everywhere, and almost everyone in charge has decided it is a problem worth real money to solve. They just disagree, fascinatingly, about how.
Sardinia and Calabria are the examples in this issue, but they are part of a broader pattern of repopulation grants — income support, business start-up money, symbolic rents — aimed at getting working-age people to stay and live.
In Spain, the answer has increasingly been immigrants. Whole villages in "España vaciada," the emptied interior, have been brought back from the edge by families from Latin America and Morocco.
We have been thinking more generally about infrastructure and resources, things you can't really know until you spend several seasons in a place.
All three of this week's Italian houses are in Umbria, the landlocked green heart of the country. Home to ancient Etruscan towns like Orvieto – known to the Etruscans as Velzna – built on outcroppings of volcanic stone (tufa) that contain ancient passages beneath that you can still explore.
abandoned homes, akiya, cheap houses, Japan, Portugal, moving abroad, expat life, rural real estate
Abandoned houses in Japan and Portugal, from $5k akiyas to stone ruins. Plus relocation grants and visa pathways worth investigating this week. Hi! We're Wally and Malia, and this is the very first issue of Remnant, so let's do introductions. We're writers with kids