Ciudad Valdeluz is a suburb 60 kilometers (37 miles) northeast of Madrid, Spain. It was meant to be city of 30,000, but only 1,000 people took up residence there after construction halted in 2008 with 75% of the city unfinished due to the economic downturn.
Today, Ciudad Valdeluz resembles a ghost town with the few residents being served by a supermarket, a corner shop and a medical center open twice a week. A security patrol watches over the deserted streets and the empty buildings.
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BBC Top Gear used this place to film a race for the last series.
ReplyDeleteHaha! That's exactly why I looked this up in the first place!
ReplyDeleteme too I watched top gear & thought wow cheap rel estate or city for displaced persons
DeleteYes lol I also looked it up after watching Top Gear
DeleteLOL and we're the only three to comment on this
ReplyDeleteGoing there for next weekend! (Milan, Italy - Ciudad Valdeluz) must be quite fun road trip
ReplyDelete:D not all alone,
ReplyDeleteso how much for a flat here ? :))
How funny that is why I looked it up in the first place, my son was watching top gear and wanted to know why it was deserted so we have just looked it up to find out more!
ReplyDeleteYea, also looked it up because of Top Gear
ReplyDeleteI also looked it up because of top gear! That's insane though. All these homeless people and a city of empty houses
ReplyDeleteOn that Bombshell !!😃😃😃
ReplyDeleteOn here because I just got my copy of season twenty two days ago and saw this same city.
ReplyDeleteLooked it up because of Top Gear too. Thought it was unlikely that homes could be unoccupied whilst so many people are homeless
ReplyDeleteI'm here because of TopGear too! Now that I know more about it I only have 2 problems left to solve- 1: get myself from Sydney, Australia, to Spain. And 2: bring along with me a very attractive girl and a very fast car. Something modest. A McLaren 650S springs to mind. In midnight blue :)
ReplyDeleteJust watched a re run of topgear and hear im am
ReplyDeleteAnd once again, here due to Top Gear rerun. Sad that more people visited this page than visit this development.
ReplyDeleteTop Gear also brought me here...
ReplyDeleteYep, top gear! My 9 yr old son has fell in love with Top Gear (every episode (=•♧)), we where watching re-runs and saw it. I just had to find out...I was thinking "contaminated" or "left over movie set, in the desert" ? Can't believe they are just going to let it all go to waste...sad...
ReplyDeleteVisited it last week, but "unfortunately" the city seems to be back on track. It is not busy but most parts are being lived in, not as on the Top Gear episode. Some roads are still deserted, but are closed off by roadblocks. Just a sleepy town with some unfinished apartment blocks.
ReplyDeleteYep. Only here cos of Top Gear
ReplyDeleteI am also here because of Top Gear. Watching reruns of the last session and getting the hang of the new Top Gear team.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately so many places like this in Spain
ReplyDeleteThe place got a second chance due to top gear.
ReplyDeleteI just watched Top Gear on Dave and looked it up!
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