Wealthy buyers and tourism entrepreneurs are acquiring abandoned European villages — school, church and bar included.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spain is said to have no fewer than 3,000 abandoned villages, mostly in the north - but some are being brought back to life.

Anavatos on Chios Island, Greece is a hauntingly beautiful abandoned village crowned with a medieval castle where crumbling ...

One of Britain's biggest and most famous deserted medieval villages, Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire has remnants of century-old houses, a church and ancient ruins for visitors to explore ...

Villages across Spain used to be full of life, work, celebration, places where people loved, worshipped and mourned their ...