A resident of San Xoán de Río (Ourense) has created this software. Its goal is to present visibility to rural Galician villages. Pope Francis has congratulated its promoter in a letter
Juan Carlos Pérez, a 51-year-old economist, has fallen in love with a small uninhabited village in Ourense. He didn’t come to her by probability. His grandparents had lived there and he had additionally spent his childhood summers. But the definitive crush occurred when the coronavirus pandemic arrived.
“That’s once I realized that residing in a village was a luxurious,” he tells NIUS. After residing in Madrid and Barcelona and a journey of a number of years in Oslo (Norway), Juan Carlos determined to settle in O Castiñeiro, the village of San Xoán de Río (Ourense) with which he had household ties.
The concept of Aldealista arose in that rural nucleus, a pioneering digital platform that was born this Wednesday with one objective: to present visibility to essentially the most depopulated areas of Galicia.
“Our objective is to make invisible peoples seen,” says Juan Carlos. Small, uninhabited cities, which might hardly be reached by following a vacationer information.
A Tinder of cities with lower than 5,000 inhabitants
In this app, which will probably be accessible from this Wednesday for customers of the Play Store and App Store, every consumer will have the ability to discover the city that most accurately fits their panorama, cultural and gastronomic preferences and tastes. “It’s a sort of Tinder for cities,” sums up the creator of this platform, alluding to the favored relationship web site.
In this fashion, the app will present you images of sparsely populated municipalities. The consumer can slide them from left to proper, exhibiting their preferences as within the well-liked relationship software.
“Based on these preferences, an algorithm will discover the city that most closely fits every consumer after which a match will probably be produced. A city has fallen in love with you”, explains Juan Carlos.
In this fashion, it’s the individuals who select the consumer and never the opposite method round. “With this we get these cities which are invisible, that don’t seem within the guides and because the first choice in standard serps, are additionally seen”, he explains.
In Aldealista, for the second, the 209 Galician municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants will probably be accessible. But the objective of its creators is to quickly prolong it to the remainder of emptied Spain.
An software blessed by Pope Francis
Depopulation is likely one of the primary issues in Galicia and, additionally, in the remainder of the so-called ’emptied Spain’. So a lot so, that Pope Francis himself targeted final September on these ‘forgotten’ cities, encouraging the authorities to welcome immigrants to fill them, as soon as once more, with life.
After listening to the Pope’s statements, Juan Carlos was inspired to write down to him. Through a letter he informed her what an Aldealista was and what his aims had been. And the thought appears to have been appreciated within the Vatican, since just a few days in the past he obtained a response to that letter. “The Pope has given us encouragement to proceed with the challenge,” explains Juan Carlos.
Letter despatched by the Pope to the promoter of ‘Aldealista’. CEDED
After receiving that blessing from the Pope, Aldealista will probably be offered this Wednesday on the Casa de Galicia in Madrid. The mayors of the 209 Galician municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants are invited to the occasion, in addition to the presidents of the provincial councils.