Interior

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The ambition for a better life, far from the economical hardship associated with subsistence agriculture in the Center region of Portugal has caused a rural exodus that's been going on for more than 50 years.

Better education, access to services and employment drove the new generations closer to the metropolitan areas, leaving behind an impoverished and aged population.

The landscape faces abandonment while its last inhabitants struggle to keep the region's collective memory intact.