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Show Great City's Decline Medinacelli, Spain, once a prosperous prosper-ous city of 15,000 Inhabitants, is slowly decreasing in size and, it is now feared, will disappear within a few years. Recent visitors report that the population, which was 5,000 only 40 years ago, is now barely 700. At the beginning of the Sixteenth century Medinacelli was a splendid Castilian metropolis, a coveted Moor-' Moor-' 'i stronghold and the key of the province of Aragon. Weavers filled the streets after the day's work and proud aristocrats strolled past grilled windows' through which beaming black eyes gleamed at them. When the dukes and their families, who lived in splendor, passed away, others oth-ers lost their livelihood and started the exodus. |