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ith Gwyneth Paltrow we have learned to expect the unexpected, so it is not surprising that the woman who gave us jade vagina eggs and coffee suppositories should produce an eccentric Christmas gift catalogue on her website, Goop.
Knowingly titled The Ridiculous But Awesome Gift Guide, suggested gifts include a Hermès surfboard, a banana lamp, an Aston Martin and, for the environmentally conscious billionaire, a zero-emissions yacht. Oh, and an entire Spanish village.
Yes, for $172,910 (£134,837) you can buy an abandoned village near Lugo in Galicia in north-west Spain. One 360 sq metre house has a new roof and has mains water and electricity. According to the estate agent, Aldeas Abandonadas (Abandoned Villages), it doesn’t require much work. There is also a 22 sq metre bread oven, a cellar, a hay barn and an hórreo – a typical Galician stone building used for drying maize.
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“She appears to have chosen it at random,” says Elvira Fafián, who runs the estate agency. “Prices range from €85,000 (£75,543) to several million. For the price of a space in a parking building in Madrid or Barcelona, you can buy a village and leave the stress of city life behind.”
Knowingly titled The Ridiculous But Awesome Gift Guide, suggested gifts include a Hermès surfboard, a banana lamp, an Aston Martin and, for the environmentally conscious billionaire, a zero-emissions yacht. Oh, and an entire Spanish village.
Yes, for $172,910 (£134,837) you can buy an abandoned village near Lugo in Galicia in north-west Spain. One 360 sq metre house has a new roof and has mains water and electricity. According to the estate agent, Aldeas Abandonadas (Abandoned Villages), it doesn’t require much work. There is also a 22 sq metre bread oven, a cellar, a hay barn and an hórreo – a typical Galician stone building used for drying maize.
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