Bulbuente is the cover of the 2023 calendar of Empty Spain.
The Calendar of Empty Spain recognizes 12 Spanish municipalities that have suffered the ravages of fire in the past year.
The Driver Group is a company that integrates “Driver. Neumáticos y Servicios” and “Autia. Integral Services”, with a wide network of workshops and establishments throughout Spain. For the last four years, it has been publishing a calendar which, on this occasion, has been dedicated to “Empty Spain”, choosing Bulbuente to illustrate its cover.
The localities chosen for each of the months correspond to those that have recently suffered forest fires in their municipalities and that, in some cases, destroyed buildings in their urban centers. Specifically, the municipalities represented are Mahíde (Zamora); Alixo (Orense); Ladrillar (Cáceres); Fageca (Alicante); Júzcar (Málaga); Riba de Saelices (Guadalajara); Andilla (Valencia); Famorca (Alicante); Porto de Sanabria (Zamora); Santa María de Miralles (Barcelona); and Ízbor (Granada), as well as Bulbuente.
Bulbuente appears on the cover, in the introduction and in the month of September, with a text in which it is pointed out that “it is a village halfway between Borja and Tarazona, at the foot of the Moncayo Natural Park. Surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and almond trees, it encourages you to walk along the banks of the river Huecha, discovering magical places. On August 13, 2022 a fire started on the slopes of the Moncayo forced to evacuate it. Thanks to the extinguishing work of the displaced means, including a group of volunteers, the fire did not enter the village. The houses were saved, but the forest and orchard areas were not so lucky”.
The places to visit are also indicated: La Mora Encantada, the Sillón del Obispo, the Fuennueva, the Fuente de los Veinte Caños, the parish church and the Castle-Palace of the abbots of Veruela. For those who do not know, the so-called “Sillón del Obispo” corresponds to what others know as “sacrificial stone” at the height of the Fuennueva.
