Interview by Alba Mª Martínez Vicente and José An. Montero | Sergio del Molino says that Rincón de Ademuz is a place out of place. Many have already left fed up with this suit the loneliness and the lack of opportunities. Ademuz Torrebaja Castielfabib Los Santos Casas Altas Casas Bajas Mas del Olmo Torrealta Negrón Sesga La Puebla de San Miguel ... are some of the names that still refuse to disappear. Two thousand people are distributed among the seven towns and ten villages of this Valencian region embedded between the Serranía de Cuenca and the Serranía de Teruel. Mª Carmen Villanueva Hernández is the mayor of Torrebaja a town of around inhabitants located on the right bank of the Turia River in one of the largest plains in this valley. “We need people who come with new proposals to open new avenues innovative projects.
We cannot confine ourselves to the classic. We must seek innovation as long as it is respectful of the environment and is proportional to our environment and our populations.” “The population that is still active in the towns is burning. That is the current CXB Directory critical reality of Rincón de Ademuz but also of Cuenca Teruel or Soria. “We retain hope but the future of our people is uncertain.” m In Torrebaja they are willing to “be brave and let the new air in” they are clear that it is not about crying but that “depopulation is fought with projects and open doors not with closed minds” Carmina name tells us. with which her neighbors call her. A mayor who despite the difficulties presented by the demographic challenge does not stop fighting informing herself and promoting initiatives wherever she goes planting ideas that save her town and her region.
There are population centers that have always been small so we would have to distinguish what is intended what is appropriate to differentiate the resource potential of each of them” says Carmina Villanueva . “ Teleworking is one of the great possibilities in rural areas. There are people who would like to live here but not to start planting apple trees or tomatoes but to continue doing research work or work linked to technology. "Jobs that can be done through the internet and at the same time enjoy the rural environment with an extraordinary quality of life." Access to technologies training and culture are the key points to reverse the situation. “Native culture has stopped being cultivated being reduced to a cliché. Culture is also romantic and bucolic like a donkey walking along terraced mountain paths a shepherd with his sheep or singing ancient songs. Culture is the cultivation of one's own the expression of a territory. If culture is not fed by new sources we stay in the classic” says Carmina Villanueva.
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