Press kit
For journalists and media. We answer in English, Italian, Spanish and German — and we can put you in touch with the town of Larva.
The story in one paragraph
Larva, a village of ~400 people in the Sierra Mágina (Jaén, Andalusia), is preparing to welcome Spain's first community of retired artists: musicians, sound and light technicians, road managers — people who spent their lives building everyone else's show and reached retirement with small pensions. They are not being resettled; they are founding something, invited by the town itself. Behind it is Tu Andalucía (tuandalucia.com), a pilot project that matches communities of like-minded retirees with depopulating Spanish villages: affordable homes, real services (in Larva: a clinic open 7 days a week, a €2 taxi to the Úbeda hospital), and neighbours who speak your language — the language of the stage.
Key facts
- The model: communities by affinity (arts & stage, nature, food & garden, sport, motors, makers, geek, fashion & design) move together — the antidote to the isolation that kills most retire-to-the-countryside dreams.
- Edition 1: 10 founding households for Larva's arts community, by invitation, forming now.
- The network: 18 researched candidate villages in Andalusia and beyond — Sierra Mágina, Sierra de Segura, Granada's Altiplano and Valle de Lecrín, Axarquía, Sierra de Cádiz — with verified data on healthcare, internet, housing prices, beach and airport reach.
- The economics: village homes from ~€10-25k in several candidate villages; cost of living up to ~50% below the big cities (figures verified village by village).
- Status: pilot phase, in dialogue with the town hall of Larva; first group forming. No public funding, no fees to join, no commission on homes.
What you can have
- Interviews (EN/IT/ES/DE) with the project's founder.
- An introduction to the town hall of Larva, for institutional comment.
- Access to the first group visit / open day in Larva (limited press places — ask early).
- Background data on the 18 candidate villages, with sources.
Photos
Photos of the villages on this site come from Wikimedia Commons (free licences, attribution in page) and are available to media under the same licences. Original photos of Larva and of the community's first visit will be available from the open day. The hero photo (Zahara de la Sierra) is from Pexels (free licence).
Contact
Press contact: webmaster.puntorosso@gmail.com — write "PRESS" in the subject and tell us your deadline; we reply fast. Site: tuandalucia.com
The project is in pilot phase. We say honestly what is confirmed and what is still being verified — and we ask the same of every story about us.