Let’s explore an abandoned apartment building and shops… in Southern Spain 🇪🇸

Hi all 😎

I want to share with you all my next post here in the community and my exploration from this abandoned apartment building / shops.
Was it empty…? Did people still live there? What about the shops?
Shall we find out… 😉😎

Let’s join me on my exploration 😎 and see what I saw and walk in my steps!

This building is located in Sotogrande, Spain 🇪🇸
This area is well known for large villas, golf courses, second homes for the Spanish that live up north… and the occasional expats.
I visited this place not that long ago on 3 august 2022, in the middle of the day.
All these photographs are taken with my iPhone and I will follow the time stamps on them, so it looks like we are exploring it all together 😊💃🏻

After I parked the car in the parking lot, I see the buildings already in front of me.

Let me show you it’s location on Google maps, I circled it in yellow:

The observant viewer sees a lot in this map. Villas, golf, the coast road, restaurants etc. you would think an abandon building wouldn’t exist in this area.
But yes, it is there for all to see. And nobody does anything with it. 🤨

Are you excited to see it?
Ok ok… let’s start our exploration now 😎 follow me!

The first thing we see is this when we walk around the corner to the back. I know there is a street and I will take you along it.

We see the apartment building is 3 floors high. No windows or doors left, not bricked up or even put up boarding. So easy access everywhere 🤩

Looking further along the road in the back. It looks like it goes on forever…

Even the road has a sign. Calle de Atras

I see lots of graffiti mess around me.

Most buildings are white, but on the side where we are standing we have these orange looking structures. Shall we have a look there first 🤓

The metal gate was open. And I see tags in English… remember I said above the area has expats living here. They have children running around the area when bored. Hehehe 🤭

The structure has a little tower, and we see a door.

View towards the parking lot.

When we peak inside we see: a bathroom… who would have thought this structure would be a bathroom? 🤔

Included a toilet and the smell with it 🤢

Let go out… hehehe fresh air is needed. Lol 😂

Ok ok… next we go to the apartment buildings… I sooo hope we find some forgotten in time apartments 🤞🏻😉
The first apartment on the ground floor we enter:

Definitely messed up. Nothing worthy to show actually. Let’s go further… 😎

The next room has large gaps in the wall and floor. Apparently there is a whole floor beneath us. So let’s watch out for unstable floors. You never know.

Walking out we look up and see more of the building on the outside.

Suddenly a group of school boys cycle past on their small bikes… hhhmmmm I know exactly what they wanted to do here. The same as us. Hahaha 🤣 exploring these places, rooms and surroundings. Looking at them I see they know their way around, but hesitate because we are taking photos.

Let’s continue with what we came for. 😎 The next apartment looks like this. Again… nothing really to see. Some doors, dismantled beds and chairs.

We see this photo on the ground. The well known Spanish dresses 💃🏻

We walk further…

Some alley ways between the buildings. We see a little bridge. How cute is that. A connection between all of them.

Next apartment we enter we see some early talent maybe…?

Are the young boys here to practice their art 😎🤓 it could well be.

More tags… and you see here, whoever written these… they are young 😉

Another practice piece… he started over this time 😎

Outside… as we walk further. Some apartments or maybe shops… have doors and windows. Could it be, that somebody lives here. Do you see it?

A look further along toward the front of the building.

A view towards the back where we are walking. That palm tree for sure needs a cut 🤓🌴

As we peak inside the next open room, this text stand out. Maybe somebody will… 🤣😂

Awww look at this, the rooms are getting fuller. But this is not a room I feel the urge to explore. As I see quickly nothing there for us.

Naaaaa let’s not go upstairs either. It’s just mess… more places to explore.

Just before we leave we see these bowls. Are they feeding the stray cats 🐈 I’m sure of it. Let’s hope somebody fills it up again.

We are further than half way now and haven’t really found anything exciting… do you have hope we will? 🤓

Now we see stair cases going upstairs on the outside. Looks like a different section. Apartments start upstairs now.

The ground floor seems to consists out of stores/ shops now. Yes… also abandon. Let’s have a look around in them. We see a massive area here… all round. All garbage around as you can see.

As we leave this place we suddenly notice a nice view into to countryside… but it isn’t the countryside though. Just some land that hasn’t been developed yet.

Still the views are nice 😊

The last stretch of buildings. The vegetation gets thicker.

Zzzoooeeeeffffffff Out of nowhere the young boys cycle past hahaha 🚲🚲🚲🚲
Seems they are observing what we are doing, as we are keeping an eye on them. 😎

Here we see all the windows are smashed. Watch out were we step.

Inside we see stairs down… with a toilet thrown in.

The walls are covered with tiles. This place could have been a few things, shop wise. Maybe a restaurant, butcher or… ?

The view going out.

Anybody some furniture? Hehehe 🤭

Every room we enter there is nothing. What a shame. I would have hoped to find something cool 😎

More tags…

We reached the end.

Some flowers trying to cheer up the lonely fence 🌸🌸🌸🌸

They do cheer me up a bit 😊🥰 after we have found nothing.

As we walk back… we look back and capture these views.

The top floors… a balcony. Or is it a bridge again…

It for sure is a connection between the buildings.

As we look through the small alleys we see a lantern is on. Light 💡

Let’s walk under the bridge and check it out.

The area is dark… so I can imagine the light working on a sensor. But why is there electricity?

I know the answer…

Because the other side of this abandon apartment buildings and shops… there are still excising shops and restaurants. Even people living there.

Some parts go even into the empty building parts, as all is connected 😳 can you imagine… why not try and keep it all nice. Why only the front you can see from the main road and parking lot? Crazy…

This side looks so much better.

As we walk back to my car.

We say good bye 👋🏻 see you next time 😃😎

And that’s all for today… hope you enjoyed our exploration and all the things I showed you today 😊
Thank you for looking and reading. 🙏🏻
Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help.

Have a great Tuesday all 😎
Grtz Jackie

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