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Promotion 1964-1970<br />

Photo provided by Arcadio Varona<br />

When the mechaniz<strong>at</strong>ion of agriculture and the low price of cereals arrived, many<br />

people of Ciadoncha had to seek work in Bilbao and Barcelona. People could no longer<br />

live in the town if they did not have enough land. This is when the exodus of the youth<br />

of Ciadoncha began and the schools began to get empty<br />

Girls Promotion 1965-1974<br />

Photo provided by Angelines Varona<br />

In the 1970s, another wave of emigr<strong>at</strong>ion from the town occurred. The majority<br />

of youths went to the city of Burgos to work in factories. Th<strong>at</strong> is when the schools in<br />

Ciadoncha no longer functioned and only the building remained, which was used as a<br />

community center so th<strong>at</strong> the youths, who came on weekends and holidays, could g<strong>at</strong>her.<br />

The same thing was happening to other neighboring small towns and they began to take<br />

the children to study <strong>at</strong> <strong>Santa</strong> Maria. From then on is when we begin to see how these<br />

towns, which were once full of life, begin to die.<br />

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