Why is 70% of Portugal Empty
2023 ж. 31 Нау.
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Portugal is the westernmost country in mainland Europe. But did you know that it has one of the most uneven population distributions in the world? In fact, up to 70% of the land in Portugal might be Empty! Want to know the factors that have caused this? Watch the video to find out!
Why is 70% of Portugal Empty
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Sorry dude your pronunciation sucks. It’s not Spanish.
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Can I ask how did you get those footage? copyright free? you bought the license?
@@MJDreams I Bet no one gave thumbs down or reported it as copyright theft
@@chrisclarke7828 that's not my concern if somebody reported it or not. My questions if if author video used licensed/his own material or used only free material that give license for reuse or didn't check it at all ;) I'm just curious if copyright law is dead on youtube.. and only big music corporation/visual networks have tools to detect copyright infringement
As a Portuguese, I consider this video an exaggeration. I lived in Tras-os-montes for a few years and I still travel there and the truth is that I did not see that there were empty towns, nor that any language other than Portuguese was spoken, even though they had a close commercial relationship with the Spanish inhabitants. On the other hand, Yes, in Spain, there are populations and regions completely uninhabited since the 1960s, but in Portugal this case has never occurred.
In Trás-os-Montes there is a different language than Portuguese which is called Mirandese, but it's only spoken in three municipalities: Miranda do Douro, Mogadouro and Vimioso.
That is not true. In Portugal many villages have been abandoned since the last century such as Colcurinho, Oliveira do Hospital. Barbelote, Monchique. Adagoi, Valpacos. Rocha Amarela, Loule Broas, Mafra. Safira, Montemor-o-Novo. Drave, Arouca. Levadas, Castro Daire. Depopulation affects all countries in the world unfortunately.
@@elkarpazos Are you even comparing the "empty Spain" with inland Portugal? Because both cases are extremely different.
Em Trás-os-Montes ainda há quem fale castelhano, aliás o castelhano é a segunda lingua oficial do país!
@@elkarpazos i live in valpaços and its a city not a village plus it has more people than it ever did
I don't see it as a bad thing. There is some land left for the animals and insects to live.
I think the same. It feels good to know that there is a lot of pristine and pure nature in our nation.
Insects? Really?
Yes same here I think giving 70 % of the land to nature is fantastic.
That and in the future there's plenty of pristine land to inhabit when you get fed up with the bigger cities.
Mas depois queixas-te das rendas altas😉
Greetings from Estoril...Been a legal resident of Portugal since 2016...Originally from Texas...Traveled and lived all over this beautiful country from Bragança to Tavira and Marvão to Ponta Delgada and everywhere in-between...I.M.H.O the interior is the best part of the country and it is not totally isolated...From smaller villages to larger towns that networked through regions...I lived for a year in Ponte de Lima...one of the oldest villages in Portugal...Absolutely gorgeous, reminded me of many small towns back in Texas...Yet close enough to Braga and Viana do Castelo with larger populations...There is a vibrant interior community with agriculture as well factories of various sorts in the interior of the country...To me the most authentic people in the country are in the interior with my favorite being Alentejo and Viana do Castelo regions...and while the bigger cities such as Braga, Coimbra, Porto, Lisboa in deed have better wages...the quality of life in the interior is superb and I go there often...Off to the Acores in early June...Will do Faial, Pico and São Miguel...but don´t do a video on the Acores Population...It does not need any more Cowboys...😉🤫🤠
Just one correction - Viana do Castelo is not located in the interior, at all. It's a city particularly known for its shipbuilding industry, it's literally by the ocean.
@@lucassampaioesteves688 Been there many times...Not once in my description did I say Viana do Castelo was in the Interior...The Ole Gil Eannes is there...and also home to Ribeiro's Brewers...excellent cerveja artesanal...Bom dia from Beautiful and Sunny Estoril...🇵🇹👌😉🍻
@@dickielarue1451 You literally said "the most authentic people in the country are in the interior with my favorite being Alentejo and Viana do Castelo regions"
@@HF06 These are regions...Are you in Portugal? Viana Do Castelo Region covers coast to Interior...As does Alentejo...and just returning from the Acores this afternoon...Can you tell me if it is in the Interior of country? 😉👌🤣
gawd forbid you ever need our shtty, worthless,INjustice system; slow as shht,incompetent, shooting the innocent and siding with the criminal, calling people to their small case in court a decade later,when some died already(helll,even the President-ish mentioned that on TV,but done zero about it...for decades...), just a crying S H A M E (ask me how i know..) avoid but then again the US has its own RACISM to deal with( ask me how i know... 20 years there)... avoid too
Spent a few weeks in Portugal in 2019…. The land is gorgeous, the people were very welcoming, and seemed very hardworking…. From Porto to the Algarve, it is a country with which one could fall in love. I cannot wait to visit again…
If i had remote work, i would probably move there
Is it worth visiting?
Delicious fresh fish and locally grown vegetables for meals is common 😋 👌
@@Johny97_Portugal is not a remote country, i AM portuguese and was lookin for like an actual remote place to live here, and theres none, its a rural country, meaning it has a lot of small cities spreaded instead of large cities, u cant walk 5km without seein houses, if u thinkin in remote places as where u are away from "civilization" that doesnt exhist in Portugal
@@Saeyka yes, maybe but about what?
Nice video! Just a small correction: although there is some regional proud (mainly between the North and Lisbon), Portugal and Portuguese people are not shaped by regional differences, even in the European context. Spain, Italy, Belgium, even Germany, these I would consider countries where regions play an important role in dividing society, what does not happen in here. In Portugal, although that speech exists, it is more in terms of jokes and it has no strong consequences socially speaking (ofc each region has its very own traditions and culture, but even though we like to point that out, when comparing with other countries it is very obvious that we have a very homogenous culture). Also, different regions don't speak different dialects, they just have different accents. The only dialect (or language) that exists in Portugal is "Mirandês", but it is spoken by very few people in the interior of the country, and then some "creolo" that came with the imigration of people from the ex-colonies (particularly around Lisbon).
A little correction: Imigration of people from the ex-ultramarine provinces, not from the ex-colonies, since Portugal didn't had colonies.
@@BuzzLightyearr12 Portugal did have colonies, they just used another name but in practice it was the exact same thing since those "provinces" worked exactly like Portuguese colonies.
@@diogorodrigues747 That is not true. I give you an example: People born in the place that is now Angola, what nationality were they?
almost every country is 60-70% empty yet they keep telling us the world is overpopulated and when need to implement population control interventions
Red zone isn't empty but have less inhabitants,it is a countryside rural landscape with less demographic density,between 10 and 25 residents per sq Km(km2).
All that wonderful Cork 🥰
I was about to subscribe, but some mistakes stopped me to do it. But, what you say from 4:55 onwards, really left me amazed. You said almost the opposite of what really happened. The government at that time favoured all the territory of Portugal in Europe, building a lot of infrastructure, universities, dams, roads, thousands of schools, bringing electricity to the interior, hospitals, etc. In the last years, due to the overseas was in Africa, only then they started doing it more in Africa than in European Portugal. Most of the people who left Portugal did it due to the war, not due to economics. During the late 50s, all 60s and the first half of the 70s, Portuguese economy was growing more than the European average. People ran from the war and censorship. The worst this you said, at 5:34, is that the government promoted emigration... this is actually the opposite of what happened. The government under Salazar never, never promoted emigration from Portugal to other countries, never. This is a lie. They wanted people in. That's why, in order to escape, many had to do it during the night and travel on foot to the border and cross it to Spain. Such mistakes really made me doubt everything else you say that I didn't know beforehand. Seriously, a simple 5-min read in Wikipedia is enough to understand that the government wanted people in, not out. I hope next time you do a better research.
*The government at that time favoured all the territory of Portugal in Europe, building a lot of infrastructure, universities, dams, roads, thousands of schools, bringing electricity to the interior, hospitals, etc.* Your comment is mostly true, except this topic above. Actually much of the infrastructure was built AFTER the end of the "Estado Novo", not before. Of course there were some infrastructure built, but it was not enough.
many people left Portugal not due to the war but because of poverty and famine (and some took exhile). Paris had huge slums inhabitted by Portuguese (Bidonville), many left for France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland... many in Madeira left to South Africa and Venezuela, Azoreans went to the USA and Canada (like Nuno Bettencourt's family). Look at Carmen Miranda and Roberto Leal, whose families left Portugal to Brazil... the dictatorship never promoted emmigration in theory, but in practical terms thousands left to the colonies and left Portugal, many villages were left without anyone.
@@diogorodrigues747 in the dictatorship, not even whole municipalities had tap water or electricity... for example, Coimbra with it's 140 000 people was only 95-100% covered by water and electricity around the 90s... there were some universities, but most public universities and politechnic schools were created after 1974. Illiteracy was huge in 1970, the data can be found on Pordata. We had one of the world's highest infant mortality, which the NHS have helped to reduce dramatically. Before the 80s even the A1 that connects Lisbon and Porto just existed partially, it was completed in the late 80s or early 90s...
@@diogorodrigues747😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh no... It was built before
@@brunograca1988 Some were, but not the majority.
Several things wrong here: 1. One of the reasons Portugal has concentrated population in the Coast and Lisbon is that historically, people could have higher wages, and salt extraction was particularly noticeable at make moving people away from interior. 2. It is not Duoro, but Douro 3. Alentejo is pronounced with the J like jet, not like an R 4. Serra de São Mamede is not on the Nort East, even the drawing contradicts what you say 5. In 1960's the government did not encourage immigration. What really happened, is people were fleeing away from the country, and did everything for the portuguese government to not know about it. This was a very common scenario. People wanted to escape the hungriness. My own father was an example of this. He and his siblings commonly ate at lunch sardine divided by 3 when they were kids. When we was trying to flee to France, when he was already in Spain nearing France. Spanish guards took him to the Portuguese border, and he had to repeat the trip again. And then he was immigrated in Paris 17 years. My uncle went to France disguised in a truck full of haze, in the middle of haze stacks, for discretion.
Sim. A minha mãe e as irmãs foram para Moçambique. Dizia-me: era mais feliz quando só podia comer 1/3 da sardinha e lutávamos pelo corpo que agora que posso comer quantas quiser. 😀🙏
France? Really? Man you should have just stayed there or go to Spain
@@agustincastano5399 Your comment is pure bullshit and nonsense. I don't know about any person that at that time went to Spain, and the General Franco dictatorship in some ways was even worse than the portuguese regime. Confirming what I said the biggest community of portuguese people outside Portugal since then is in Paris!
Obrigado!
Damn you bodied the mfer hahaha nice one
Another cultural factor is that the Portuguese are VERY attached to the sea. It's very hard for people that live near the coastlin to got to the interior because we feel almost claustrophobic and dispriented without the great atlantic ocean by our side
Yesssss!!! I now live in the interior of another European country and I lose my mind if I can't see the ocean for a couple of months. And I only understood how much the sea affects us Portuguese, since I moved here 😭 Saudade
sem duvida!
@@portoferreira564 aqui no ribatejo está-se bem
First sentence of our national anthem is "Heróis do mar" (heroes of the sea)
I understood that feeling when I visited Portugal and Spain, but sort of in the opposite way. I live in Mexico City, which is super mountainous, and it felt... off to be so far away from any major mountains, being so close to the sea all the time felt weird to me.
I learned more about Portugal by reading the comments, lol.
😂😂
As Portuguese, I would just like to clarify that we don't have regions with dif dialects. We have different accents actually! In Spain, they have dif dialects, a sibling of Spanish let's say. For us, we all speak Portuguese but depending on where you are, the way we say the same word sounds different. And yes, regarding each region, we're very proud of our accents, futebol teams, food etc eheh but if you go to the biggest cities you'll find people from all corners of the country. Nice video though! ❤ P.s: I'm talking about ACCENTS, not languages so don't twist my words. There are no dialects in Portugal like there are in Spain. For those who clearly did not get my comment. And yes Spain has plenty of other languages. Guess what, so do we! It's still something diff than a freaking accent. That's what's less accurate in the video.
Sorry Ferreira . In Spain, we have many dialects and fourth national languages . Spanish, Esukeda/Vasque, Gallego, Catalán.
*In Spain, they have dif dialects, a sibling of Spanish let's say.* Basque is not a sibling of Spanish AT ALL, it's completely different. In fact it's not even an Indo-European language.
football not futebol
You are completely wrong on this, Spain has different languages and dialects too. Portugal has regions too. Please get informed before posting any comment.
@@sabbag-saab2215 I said they HAVE DIALECTS in Spain! Not us in Portugal! Get it?
A fair job on Portugal. The coastal areas vs interior regions was a bit redundant, but then that was the subject at hand. The pronounciation of Portuguese was also good, with the exception of words with NH which I didn't expect you to get, and the J, which I did expect you to get. After all, Portugueses is not Spanish.
António Silva Não Português Espanhol são linguas romanicas como o Françes Romeno Romanche Italiano etc. Do Latim nasceu várias linguas romanticas ou romanas como queiram dizer.
I live in Canada and know/have met many people from Portugal. They are are great people and very hard working. Two very important traits in anyone.
Im also from Canada in the Toronto area. What a contrast it is. People are significantly more pleasant in Portugal
Probably 95% of portuguese speaking in canada are from acorez
@@cfatal3290 yes my family is the small percent in Canada from Portugal mainland
@@Johny97_Is the Portuguese dialect different? Are you able to tell?
@@Qaranwadani1993 the accent in the mainland is very different from the azores. But the language is still the same. Just sounds different
Love Portugal and its people!
Foreigners taking an interest in learning about my country never ceases to amaze me. Thank you (,Obrigado 😊)
Ive been comming there since my parents took me on holyday as a child and trying to get some money to buy a plot of land there. Relax culture ,good food and good weather and all that still close to home (couple of hours driving) Really hope it will work out.
@@Wazztheweasel. Good luck to you! I’m seriously thinking of emigrating there from the US.
At 1:01 you are mentioning that the country's interior is dominated by mountains terrain, while you are showing a video of a Vulcanic island in the middle of the atlantic, Madeira.
And at 1:43 he's mentioning the interior of Portugal, but the picture showed Palácio da Pena, which is located in Sintra (near Lisbon). Great try and effort on his video, it's really well arranged, just some knowledge twisted over the video. Keep it up you (if you read this) 😉
Hm. I can see now the whole video is AI-generated. We watch this. To whom goes the profit for this video? Is there advertisement? At least we have each other in the comment section to share useful information!! Nice to meat you real people ....unless the entire comment section is AI generated of course...........................
As somebody else mentioned, this video contains exaggerations regarding "uninhabited" regions. They're not uninhabited at all. I live in a very rural area of one of them: Alentejo. The population density is low, to be sure, and falling as the rural population ages and dies. If you live here that's certainly a worry because population density in these regions is already at about half the level of what it was in the 1950s and early 1960s. Nobody wants to see streets full of abandoned houses or rarely visited second homes that remain empty and lifeless for much of the year. One wants them to retain the vibrancy and strong sense of community that is their true richness. Nevertheless, quality of life in the interior is very high - provided you have a reasonable source of income. I wouldn't choose to live anywhere else. Climate is great. Food is great. People are great. Culture is great. Bureaucracy is... fortunately.... improving - although patience is still a virtue! 🙂 I would really like to see the initiatives aimed at stimulating employment and self-employment in regions such as this successfully encourage young Portuguese people (perhaps with children) to have the confidence to return to their family roots in the interior. In an age when the digital economy is reshaping employment, there would seem to be ample opportunities for those of working age to improve their quality of life. At the same time this will require the construction of new homes. Terraced cottages in a rural town or village look great but are often very uncomfortable, cold and damp in the winter time. The low quality of housing is a problem right across Portugal. As many Portuguese people here have already mentioned, Portugal doesn't have distinct dialects of Portuguese. But they do have a (relatively) limited range of accents and relatively minor regional variations in vocabulary. This is hardly unique to Portugal, though. There is significant regional variation in terms of identity, food and traditions. But at the same time these regional variations are appreciated more widely across the country in much the same way that they are in other countries. Regional pride in local traditions and culture is (fortunately) very much alive and very much appreciated and respected. The Azores (Açores) is like a microcosm of the mainland: each island is very different, as are its people and their unique culture/traditions. Yet they're part of a greater Açorean whole with a very strong and distinct Portuguese national identity layered on top of that. With each passing year I feel that Portuguese people - especially young people - are (with good reason) becoming more and more proud of being Portuguese. And so they should be. It genuinely is a wonderful country and it's lovely to see the rising professional and personal confidence amongst the (now very educated and modern European) young Portuguese people. The country is stuff burdened by the legacy of the Salazar dictatorship (aspects of which this video describes) but the younger generation have truly broken free of the more submissive mindset (from the period of dictatorship) that their grandparents would always struggle to overcome and that their parents never completely left behind. Young people in Portugal are now every bit as forward looking, competent and confident as anywhere else in Europe. I would very much love if many of these very capable young people were able to find happiness and success in the regions such as mine. Hopefully that will come to pass. As a foreigner ("almost Portuguese"!) working in the digital economy from rural Portugal, I would certainly like to see an injection of energy, enthusiasm and creativity from young people coming back to this area from the (much more expensive) coastal cities such as Lisbon (where I used to live). Both of my nephews have gone to work in the UK (prior to Brexit) but my great hope in the next decade is that this trend will be reversed. In many ways business in Portugal has to catch up with Eastern Europe but there is so much opportunity to do so and virtually all of the necessary conditions already exist. Except for good wages. Wages are poor across Portugal. In the digital economy, at least, I expect wages to rise significantly in this country. I very much hope that this (and the associated productivity improvements that underpin this trend) will bring improved salaries across the board and making living in the interior regions of Portugal (with their low housing costs) much more attractive to the younger generation. A country with such a *potential* for abundant clean and cheap energy, a clean environment, low cost housing, plenty of land per capita and a great quality of life shouldn't be losing talented and hard-working young people (including doctors and nurses!) abroad. Perhaps with Lisbon (and similar cities) becoming so expensive for property, young people will look look to a possible future in the interior in a new light. The government should absolutely be trying to accommodate them. The would be a reverse of the migration to the coastal cities from the interior that took place in the 60s and 70s. Portugal is like a very rich box of chocolates that one opens and enjoys again and again. There's just so much to discover and appreciate. Some of the best of what's to discover is far away from the beaches of Algarve and the bright lights of the coastal cities. If only tourists knew. But to many of us it's almost a blessing that they don't - because so many parts of Portugal are not ruined by mass commercial tourism and are so much the better for it. The real wealth of Portugal is encapsulated in the nature of its people. In the interior, perhaps, there's simply much more opportunity (settings and time) to experience Portuguese people at their best rather than on a busy street in Lisbon during rush hour or in a shopping centre or supermarket. You get the time and space to meet and watch people go about their daily business and appreciate the way that they do this in a more intimate setting with a slower pace of life. There's an openness and humility amongst the vast majority of Portuguese people (though not all, as I'm sure my Portuguese friends will agree!) that makes Portugal such a pleasure to visit. People are for the most part kind, considerate and welcoming. It's very easy to be won over by this endearing national characteristic. If the various regions of the interior can be brought to life again in the next 20 to 30 years then that would be wonderful.
You do not want digital currency. No control over the money. The policians and corporations need to stop being greedy with the "help" of the people.
Portugal is sparsely populated in the interior of the country, because the political power did not invest in the interior of the continent and abandoned it with the expenses, closing all public services, for example, closing the forest services, causing the abandonment of the forest, causing a increase in forest fires. During the last decades, in the last political regimes, they led to the total abandonment of investment in the interior, closing the train lines, public road services, bridges and paths... even the rivers, mountains are abandoned. During the last 30 years, schools in the villages were also closed, promoting the abandonment of populations. Forest fires also contributed to the abandonment of different locations. agriculture was also unprotected and neglected by current policies, encouraging migration to the coast.
cabum os abrileiros anarquistas destruiram tudo vao comecar nas estatuas nos castelos e ate na historia eles querem que se esqueca o passado , eles querem fazer como os romanos
you mean socialism doesn't work?
Tudo dito!
These kinds of videos are somewhat simplistic. The interior of Portugal does not have harsh weather and does not present insurmountable topographical challenges. See Canada for harsh weather and Switzerland for crazy terrain. It's just that the population hasn't grown enough for people to move to those lands and there is very little immigration into the country. This video is somewhat analogous to someone saying in 1750 why the 13 colonies on the east coast of the United States are so sparsely populated. It is simply because of a lack of people since now the eastern seaboard of the US is one of the most densely populated and productive in the world. And immigrants are responsible for that. People create cities and make opportunities even in the harshest places. Geography is at best a small impediment.
well, go northeast where you have colder winters, historically people depended on local energy supplies to keep their homes warm like the cattle or wood because many were poor... Guarda, Viseu, are also cold and wet in the winter, in Alentejo temperatures rise well above the 40º in the summer and before the dams were built, it went through severe draughts, also the intensive wheat agriculture has dried the lands, plus before the 70s most lands belonged to only a few owners for whom most people worked, earning only a meagre salary, food was scarce.... and many have left to the south bank of the Tejo near Lisbon to work in the industries there....
maybe thats true. Belgian has a very wealthy, densily populated geographical flat north, and a relatively poor sparsely populated mountainous area. Always a discussion that `the south takes too much gouvernment money and gives too ,little in return`. I always thought the geography was to blame. I still believe that its true, but if you have the choice you go to the geographically and climatologically most beneficial areas, where things are easier by nature. But yes, if we must, we could survive in more hostile environments, it just takes better social management and clever use of space and resources.....
Thanks for paying attention to our language and correctly saying the name of the city of Porto. Many non-portuguese speakers think the city is called "Oporto" but "o" translates as "the". What happens is we usually refer to this city with the definite masculine pronoun "o", the same way we do with other cities like Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Cairo. Cities usually don't take pronouns but these are notable exceptions.
Wow.. that's... interesting. I have never heard anyone call it "Oporto".
@@fyrhunter_svk In Europe it's very common. I studied in Spain and even teachers would say this way. Even in airports I would read it. Another misconception is referring to the city of Salvador as "Salvador de Bahia", when Bahia is just the state where it is located.
@@fyrhunter_svkyou live under a rock
Acho que ele não prestou muita atenção ao pronunciar "Min-ho" em vez de Minho.
@@pedromendesrbd If you studied in Spain, then you should know that "Oporto" is the Spanish name for the city, as we also have our own versions for foreign places , like "Saragoça" instead of Zaragoza, or Camarões instead of Cameroon, so it´s not "incorrect", it´s also how Porto has been known by the Brtitish, although today both forms exist and are acceptable.
Portugal é muito lindo. Otimo lugar para viver ❤❤❤❤❤
We live in the Serra da Estrela & it is glorious - have posted a few vids! Yes, it can get cold in the winter, but a huge advantage of being up here is cool nights even in summer...the population is currently at around 1/10th of what it was in the 60's
Thank you for the video about Portugal ❤
You deserve more views.
Documentário sobre Portugal mais errado e confuso que vi até hoje!!!!
Lisbon and The Porto are so liveble, alot of czech's lives there, so do I.
Welcome. I once visite Prague, lovely city, great nightlife.
Prague has lots of life, work opportunities, I came here and stayed (at least for now). Other cities like Brno, Pilsen, Olomouc are attracting people, even Ostrava or others have done so, have companies that attract immigrants and its youth can stay in, although a few do prefer Germany or other countries to grow professionally... but Czech are quite patriotic...
@@linogalveias Portugal and Greece are top two destinations for czech's, we need a little bit of sun over ours skin.
@@linogalveias what's s the winters like?
@@k-dogg9086 in Portugal? Cold, depending on where you go... esp. down south it's milder, up north it's colder and homes are not insulated enough, can get cold... last winter was warmer though :(
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The high taxes ,lack of jobs and low wages make it more difficult...
Is not a problem of geography, its the lack of incentives to move into interior! It's a problem of lituralization and migration
Due to geography...
@@danielgomessilva8966and policies. Most politicians are from rich snob families from both the region of Lisboa and Porto who look down on the rest of the country.
@@carlossaraiva8213 that's why they wanna bring those "rest of the population" close to where they live, isn't? "We hate them. Let's bring them near us". É o pensamento mais básico: eles contra nós. Sofisticação no intelecto ao mais alto nível. Básico
@@danielgomessilva8966 estás a ser denso de proposito?
@@carlossaraiva8213 A sério... Até parece que a maioria das nossas serras não tem tuneis a atravessar... até parece que é assim tão difícil restaurar as linhas de comboio que tínhamos antigamente.
Outdated and inacurate. For over 2 years people have come to the interior, i have lived for 2 years in three diferent red zones with not so much sparse population, let alone "uninhabited" and more over I have traveled over 10.000km on the red zones and outside of the cities you have small vilages all over, lots of abandoned or holiday houses and large farming or cattle fields between the vilages but its inhabited anyhow.
Liked it.very informative.
The interior having mountains areas is not exacly a reason for depopulation, since there are cities in the mountains anyway. There are enough roads and highways to cover that area as well. The high altitudes you mention are on the top of the mountains, and (of course) noone lives there, and that area is not long enough to be relevant. But its a good video overall!
LOL. The footage at 1:02 showing mainland Portugal’s rugged mountains is actually footage of Madeira Island, not mainland Portugal.
Amazing video, very educational, thanks. I'll search your videos to see if you have something to say about my country Costa Rica 😀
@antonio de Jesus Viveiros Responding to: I'm Portuguese too and I think that the overall analysis is spot on. I frequently travel Portugal form north to south and from the coast to the interior, and I know for a fact the narrator to be correct. For a 12 minute piece a lot has been said and shown to comprehend how Portugal is the way it is
This video has one of the most pleasant sounding narrators I’ve ever heard. I loved listening to him
Sou Portuguesa e fim aos EUA por 2 semanas e já estou ansiosa de voltar a Portugal por várias razões: 1 - A comida saudável de Portugal. Nos EUA tem muita variedade, mas é muito difícil encontrar alimentos saudáveis. 2º - Vou vegana e se quero comer em um restaurante em Portugal existem muitos restaurantes vegetarianos! Mesmo os que não são vegetarianos e em todos os restaurantes têm refeição vegetariana. 3º - As frutas em todo o lado têm um sabor muito bom enquanto nos EUA é muito difícil encontrar frutas com sabor a fruta. Aqui até a fruta não é saudável. 4º - Os hotéis de Portugal têm um atendimento superior e qualidade muito superior aos hotéis dos EUA. 5º - Em todos os cantos de Portugal eu me sinto segura mesmo perto dos bairros de pessoas pobres e mesmo em lugares com drogados eu sei que eles não me vão atacar e sei que não vão fazer violência comigo. 6 º - Se acontecer alguma avaria no meu carro nas estradas de Portugal eu sei que em 15 minutos tenho um carro para me socorrer. Mesmo em estradas secundarias sei que o máximo 30 m tenho algum segurança que vem me ajudar. 7º - Eu sou mulher e conduzo uma Motor Home e eu sei que posso parar em qualquer lugar e dormir sem estar com medo de vir alguém para me fazer mal. 8 º Eu nasci em Africa e não queria vir para Portugal, até hoje eu queria encontrar outro pais na minha reforma, mas reconheço que Portugal tem muitas coisas boas que outros países não têm. 9º - Quando eu viajo pela Europa e volto a Portugal eu me sinto muito feliz ao chegar a Portugal porque tem muito sol o ano inteiro raramente as nuvens escondem o nosso maravilhoso sol! 10º - Portugal tem restaurantes chineses onde eu posso comer saudável e tem muitas outras lojas chineses que têm tudo e onde posso comprar barato.
Beautiful country. ❤ I would prefer to live in the mountains. I love cold weather and snow makes everything look so beautiful.
I like the music and the content!😊
The majority of sparsely populated areas are mainly suited to subsistence farming,damned hard work and not for the fainthearted...or the lazy...Portuguese farmers are made of hard stuff ..forza 🤗
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It's less about geography and more about politics, Lisbon is the biggest city and has the most job opportunities, educated young people from the interior go to Lisbon to get a job, stay there and start families, little by little Lisbon's population grows and the interior's declines, and when it comes to election the most populated areas elect the most MPs. Portalegre, the least populated district currently elects only 2, as the population declines eventually it may becomes 1. So for the politician's there isn't alot to gain for adressing the interior's needs when one or two cities on the coast are worth more votes then several districts combined. That is why we hear so much about an airport in Lisbon and not one more into the interior with good connection to Lisbon and politicians only talk about high speed railway from Lisbon to Porto and not from Lisbon to Madrid which would bring alot on investment and jobs to the interior
I don't understand why it has been decided to link high speed with Galicia, I think a great opportunity has been lost for Portugal to be a little better integrated in transport with the rest of Europe. the union Porto Lisbon Madrid Barcelona Paris would have been the best in my opinion.
Real life lore will be proud of you!
The Portuguese love so much Spain they don't even want to live too close to it 😅
I´m a bit sceptic of the empty lands inside Portugal. OK, I was only as tourist there and most of the time in the populated areas. But I was also interested in the inside and went with train from Lisboa to Tomar. This was the last station of the train and it took 2 hours. This is a small town in the center of Portugal that has a lot of history and a very nice city center. It is not too big, you do not have many tourists there, but thre are plenty of nice restaurants and city life. There are big school builduings and a university for technology. The city did not look like it gets abandoned soon. On the contrary I can imagine to settle there if I move to Portugal. The travelling from Lisabon there were several smaller towns and it was not that crowded, but not empty. When I travelled through France I went through many areas which were far more empty. Same for Spain and of course there are some areas in Portugal, where you find only a few people. The population in Portugal is slightly increasing, that´s the opposite to Italy for example.This country is liked a lot and I assume many people will move to Portugal in the future. No worries that Portugal will not have any people in the future.
You can take a bus/coach from Tomar to Fatima 1hr which is a modern town, or further to Leira 2hrs which is a lovely older town, I thought both Tomar and Leira were much nicer than Lisbon, and more relaxed with more history. You can also take the train to Coimbra, with one change of train (but easy), really beautiful city, it is a couple of hours there and back, so best to book a night stayover there if you really wish to have a good wander around.
I live below Serra da Estrela. I'm from Brazil but me and family immigrated to Portugal in 2019. That's amazing country with good people! Like you said in the video, the infrastructure in transport it's a problem here ! But I love Portugal !
I am from Lebanon and also like Portugal. Tears go from my eyes when this country comes to my mind but i have a question: Is it true that the roads are very bad to extent that accidents frequently occurs ?
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 no
@@Jose-vv6bh can you explain more please?
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 Roads are very good in all Portugal and transports too
@@oldwine2401 Good to hear that. The important thing is that it can be safe to drive at the roads of this country. It could definitely depend upon our morality in driving as well
We will be in Lisbon 26 Apr 24 for 9 nights to tour Portugal with Gate 1. We have been to Lisbon before on a cruise, but this will be our first visit to the rest of the country. We are really looking forward to our visit! Thanks for posting!
Living in those regions is actually synonymous to healthy life. I live there, as well as in the city.
Finally something about us portugueses! Even though you forgot metion Azores and Madeira archipelagos. The azores island are less populated and some still rural. We also have our cultural diferences for exemple in azores we celebrate a holidya called "Espirito santo" or holy ghost in english. And azores also are pretty much natural reserves like forests and the pico mountain, the highest point in portugal. And many islands consist in tourism as its economy.
“Holy spirit” not ghost…
@@maurobatista3309 In English you can say "Holy Ghost", that's how the KJV calls it. I know they don't teach you proper English in Brazil but you could make some efforts.
The Azores. Fascinating place. Los Vestgios de l'Atlantida.
A well balanced documentary. However, maybe because the producers are American, they've overlooked the rest of the world. In the 1960's many, many Portuguese imigrated to South Africa, my family being one of them. There were over 250k Portuguese living in South Africa before 1994.
The "About" section of this channel clearly states this is a UK production, not American. If it had been produced in the US, area measurements would have been in square miles, distance in miles, temperatures in Fahrenheit and rainfall in inches. Would have been better if it had subtitles giving measurements in both units. Americans are far from the worst about overlooking the rest of the world. After all, North America is the most culturally diverse continent on the planet, with well over 90% of our population having immigrated from somewhere else.
Excellent vid..🎉
Nice Video, but as a portuguese myself, i really dont agree that part of the "regional proud" and "dialects". There are obsviously some diferences in accent (NOT DIALECTS), Cuizine, costumes and even sports between someone from the North, the South or Madeira & Azores, (it is more in terms of jokes, more in a friendly way) i assure you it is a lot less than compared to countries like Spain, Italy or Belgium. Also, a key factor you left out, is that most (not all but almost) Universities are on the Coastal Cities, many students just find work around that area after finishing theis degrees instead of comming back to the rural country where they probably won't find anything related to what they studied, or, even if they do, they are generally less paid compared to what they'll earn working around Lisbon or Porto. After Covid and with Homeworking being implemented in many areas, there is now people in their late 20's and 30's either returning or trying to move to the rural areas, where houses are a lot bigger and cheaper.
you should do a tutorial on how you do your vieos it is really interesting!
Fun Fact: Portalegre has the smallest population, while smaller districts, like Braga or Lisboa or Porto, even the autonomous Regions of Madeira and Azores have bigger population Population: Lisbon has the most
Fun fact : The oldest operating bookstore in the world is located in Lisbon.📚
Great video!!
Thank you for the information
I spent couple of days of summer’22 in the North part of the Interior and never seen drier place on Earth. The villages were abandoned or almost abandoned and the existing B&Bs try to attract people with the „great hiking” and what not, but let’s face it - climat changes and currently, the Interior is a complete desert. I love Portugal but I coule not imagine living in the Interior even if they gave me a house for free. Roads are great, infeastructure is impressive for sure.
Bom dia. Ainda existe muita gente do norte de Portugal na região do Algarve. 😊❤
I’m Proud to be a Sri Lankan Portugess 😊
Great info! Thank you! Obrigada! 🙂
More Portuguese people live in south eastern Massachusetts than in mainland Portugal.
Shout out Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf
@Mikey Barboza This isn’t true. The actual entire ( declining) population of Massachusetts is estimated to be around 7 million people for the year of 2023. The U.S. Census Bureau website will clarify what’s stated here.
@@michaeldelisieux5252 PT population is 10 million and not increasing anymore
@@lioneldemun6033 I do know that. But saying that there’s a population of Portugueses as big as the one on the mainland living in Massachusetts is out of the board to say the least.
Portugal has a population of 10.3 million people
With all these questions. The answer is normally navigable water ways.
I found your report very informative. Thanks
Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
Great video, beautiful landscapes! Just to add another point, to what had been said, that it was like this, right from the start. It was also a good strategy to not populate near the boarder, for security. The same on the other side of the boarder. That resulted in one of the more stable frontiers of Europe throughout the centuries.
a video about continental portugal with a lot of images from madeira, fail
Thank you for sharing!
Great video
Na verdade, o interior não é habitado como o litoral. Isso não é o mesmo que vazio. Cada região tem o seu sotaque, tal como todos os outros países. Assim como ditados populares, adivinhas e anedotas. A rivalidade só existe no futebol ⚽. Portugal 🇵🇹 é na verdade um país cheio de contrastes e controvérsias.
bem respondido, rapariga. em Portugal não há desertos de gente. seja onde for. Beja ou Guarda. ou Barcelos ou Silves. há é gente que se mexe muito quando tem de ser, mas nunca se esquece do chão onde nasceu.
We’ll both my parents come from the Northern red parts. They immigrated to America. Here I am.
Awesome presentation and informative
Similar to Taiwan where 90% of the people live in the coastal strip on the west side and two thirds of the island is either lightly populated or too mountainous for settlements.
The video worries more about Portugal than portuguese politicians. 😂
You use the word significant a lot. Try using it less. Good video keep up :)
I gotta say that the images mostly don't match the area of the country that's being mentioned. Just random images of Portugal for everything. And 4:55 is not Portugal, it looks like Spain, near Benidorm. Also, if you look at an Iberian peninsula population density map, it's not about the interior of Portugal, but the Iberian peninsulan interior that's more depopulated with the exception of Madrid. And this is just how it happens everywhere. But the low population density is especially striking when you cross the border into Spain.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Porto is pronounced Portoo.Also the h after n is not sounded in a word.It is there to make the n sound like the n in Spanish manana.They use an accent on top of the n for that instead.Some call it a tilde.The French do the same when they put a g before an n as in bolognaise.
I do not see why this is a problem to be solved. People all around the world like to live close to the oceans/seas. I would be more concerned with getting sufficient water to the south and continue to upgrade services where people are located... but that is just me.
The demographic situation in Portugal seems similar to that in Spain. Thanks for posting.
Many English people have moved to Portugal Your program is very interesting
Very thorough.
That's not true, interior has less people but has many small cities.
Excellent report. Thank you.
super helpful thank you
Yes 30/70 sounds about right, but I don't believe it is du to difficulty of adding infrastructure but because of the land not being so good for agriculture.
Most of the world is "empty" (without a human population). There is so much land that is just too inconvenient/problematic to live in, and also, people tend to stick together. I live in Canada... it is just big and empty. If you wanted to stay here, and disappear from the civilized world, there are plenty of remote locations where you could do so.
Saying salazar favored the coastal regions is a compliment. He favored lisbon. That's it. Porto was characterized by its slums and it was the second largest city. Centralizations is still a problem but Porto has always fought against it hard, so hard that we refused tk be the capital way back in the days of the reconquista. Against everyone and everything in the invicta as always lmao
"Saying salazar favored the coastal regions is a compliment. He favored lisbon. That's it. Porto was characterized by its slums" So his Lisbon. It was not a Salazar policy the centralized effect in Lisbon but something at least since the Monarchy. It would be impossible for Porto to be a capital back in Medieval Ages part since it wasn't as important as other way more strategically cities as Coimbra. Secondly it was under a Bishop so new King Afonso would have a hard time to have a ful authority in it. He was primus inter pares not a completely "absolute king" he would a great dificulty making his authority supreme as he had in North against nobility. But not in Lisbon that was "new city" taken from Moors.
You didn't "refuse it" lmao, no king wanted you as the capital, that's it.
@@HF06 read more history😮💨
@@thelusogerman3021 Wow, great argument. Tell me when Porto was elected as a capital but the population or alcaide or bishop or whatever refused. I'll wait. Porto was the seat of the first county of Portus Cale in the High Middle Ages, that's it.
Where is that place at 02:33 ?
the fact is that because the distritos (our supposed regional divisions) have lost administrative power in the last decades, with only some organs ruling over some bureaucratic aspects, the country is in fact governed from Lisbon. Though we have some larger cities in the interior with larger influence (Évora, Guarda, Viseu, Vila Real, for example) we have no actual assemblies or cannot decice on infrastructure, economic development strategies... Any bridge or road that needs to be built, strategies on civil protection (fires, forestry), agriculture, are decided in Lisbon... This brings inequal development to regions. There is inequal wage, less opportunities in smaller places, many had to move to the larger cities of Lisbon and Porto.... Due to agriculture quotas and changes, agriculture is good for only a few larger companies, wine has developed yes, so have the olive oil and almond productions... some dams to act against draughts especially in Alentejo... but while that happened, many left for the city to find more opportunities or went abroad... Also many new roads were built but we've lost railroads in the interior, we're not even connected to Spain by train now (except Vigo) like we did until 2020. In some regions universities have gained popularity like in Évora, Covilhã, Viseu, Guarda, Vila Real and Trás-os-Montes (northeast)... and bring in young people, some new industries.... but also there is a decline in population due to lower birth rates... luckily there's some recent immigration....
Great video. The only thing you weren’t totally accurate is about the dialects and government support. We don’t have dialects, just diferente accents. But the pride about our regions and cultural differences is present. The north and lisbon are very different culturally, politically and economically. Lisbon is based more and services while the north is heavily industrialised. About the government’s support, they are virtually non existent. Most interior regions don’t have a railway system operating, and very few businesses establish there and corruption levels are just ridiculous. To give an example, I am from one of the poorest regions in Portugal (Montalegre), where only tourism in the Gerês mountains is saving its economy. There are no industries and very little services, and yet the former mayor robbed 20M euros from taxpayers money. To put in perspective our former prime minister robed about 30 from the entire country. So the interior has a long way upfront, and if that changes actually happens, it’s going to be due to the fact it’s becoming unsustainable financially to live in Porto, lisbon, braga or Coimbra.
Yeah the language is the same everywhere but there are different accents. To a tourist it might sounds like different dialects
Portugal looks like paradise in comparison to a Canadian winter.
its the same quite everywhere in europe. in France too, we have a diagonal of desertic countryside. This is linked to a migration to the cities where work is concentrated. But things are changing and people are gradually leaving the cities to repopulate the less densely populated areas and bring in employment other than agricultural jobs.
You described Portugal very well, you just forgot to talk about Portuguese wine. Congratulations on the excellent work. And to all the people of the world, Portugal awaits you with open arms. Welcome
these images are quite deceiving sometimes, and the Alentejo is basically flat
i live in the red zone , wtf im the only human and the other people are robots ,thanks man for the info
You didn’t mention the history of eucalyptus and paper production…I can recommend a source for this if you would like to explore this further .
Salazar was a university professor for macro-economics. He knew that post monarchy 1920s quagmire Portugal had to undergo hardships and deprivations until sovereign debt was paid off and until household been cleaned, which he had managed to do almost entirely. The Gold pegged currency Escudo was as hard as a Swiss Frank or Deutsche Mark during his governance. He had an utterly modest lifestyle. His frugality and anti-corruption attitude were second to none and basis of this politician‘s credibility. He didn’t bankrupt the country by lining his pockets, spending on useless prestige projects or by making it a debt slave that lives ever more on borrowed money.
isn't this kinda case of prettty much every country? (exluding city states and some micro states)
Germany has large and strong cities and states far from the sea (like the southern states of Rheinland-Pfalz, BW and Bayern... Switzerland is far from the ocean, its lakes and rivers favour navigation... and has strong states
Wait, so Portugal suffers from the exact same problem as Brazil? What is up with Portugese loving the coasts so much...
every country tends to have it's major cities close to the coast. It's not just Portugal or Brazil.
@@alfrredd Not in Europe tho. France, UK, Italy, Germany, Poland all have more densely populated inland areas.
We love the sea my friend
Water transport is cheaper than land transport, and in the past was much much cheaper than land transport. In Portugal the roads were particularly bad till almost last quarter of 20th century, so coast and along navigable rivers were where economy developed most. Fortunately PT has several good rivers
@@statsguy1446 Rome is just 30km from the sea, Paris and London have access to the sea via Seine/Thames. The only capital I can think of with no navigable river or sea acess is Madrid. Human settlements are naturally more prosperous if there's easy water access.
m Portuguese. I don't think that Portugal is 70% empty, it doesn't correspond to the truth. I don't know what that ridiculous percentage is based on.
Bro’s never been to the countryside
Good information.