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The Great Decline: Last Breaths of a Way of Living in the Countryside
Galicia is witnessing the accelerated disappearance of a rural way of life that persisted for millennia.
He finishes breakfast in the kitchen of his house on a cold winter morning. He is 84 years old and lives alone in Noceda, A Fonsagrada. (Photo: Brais Lorenzo)
MANOLO BROA
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BRAIS LORENZO
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Since the second half of the 20th century, Galicia has been witnessing the accelerated disappearance of a rural way of life that persisted for millennia. There are undoubtedly positive aspects to this transformation. However, at the same time, it represents a cultural loss of enormous magnitude: over the coming months, the Habitar o Baleiro collective brings the stories of a vanishing world that deserves to be told.
