Alone with the stars, lynx and wolves in ‘Empty Spain’

By Stephen Phelan

A world away from the tourist hotspots of the coast, Extremadura and Castile and León offer unpolluted skies, lower prices – and hope for the future of vulnerable wildlife A s photographed at night from a satellite, or the International Space Station (ISS), the Iberian peninsula looks encrusted with lights along its coastal edges. There are no other forms of pollution either, it seems. “Extremadura is, no doubt, the most natural and healthy place to live,” Garzón says.