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Portugal: Lisbon, the empty capital

Rundown buildings and the high price of a square metre are driving away young people and transforming the Portuguese capital into a ghost town to the point where it would be completely devoid of life were it not for the annual influx of students brought to the city by the Erasmus programme.

6 August 2010
2001 El País Madrid

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