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Environment

The wool pack

It’s a tough, lonely job and your co-workers are always bleating. So why are students flocking to Andalusia’s shepherd school?

  • Issue #166
  • 4 min read
Shepherding instructor Covadonga Miralles standing with students in a barn filled with sheep running in circles
Fashion

On its own terms

Far from the mainstream fashion hubs, students in coastal Spain are forging their own creative paths.

  • Issue #162
  • 10 min read
Behind-the-scenes photo shoot with two models in green and purple outfits against green screen backdrop
Society

Back to the land

Europeans have flocked to cities but what remains of the villages they left behind? In Spain, we meet the folk fighting to resurrect forgotten communities.

  • Issue #157
  • 23 min read
Group of workshop participants posing on balcony and ground level of rustic stone building with terracotta roof
Affairs

Missing Persons

Villages across Europe are being abandoned as people move to cities. Spain knows this problem well: its Soria region has 492 empty villages. Can the country’s ghost towns ever be reborn?

  • Issue #4
  • 7 min read
Missing Persons

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