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- This village was dying slowly.

- So ten years ago, Banos de Montemayor decides to transform the precious spring of this mountains into a lucrative line.

- The Roman baths are the pride of the village.

- Thanks to European manna, they are luxuriously renovated.

- Large marble bath at 36°C; it is a delightful step backward to Gallo-Roman times for the visitors.

- It is a real rejuvenating experience for the village.

- Up to1995, the thermal baths opened 3 months per year.

- And 15 people were hired.

- Today, we have 45 jobs.

- And we open from 10 to 11 months a year.

- As a fact, all the families of the village now live directly or indirectly from the thermal activity.

- Even better, some who had left decided to come back.

- Such as Lola, this Spanish woman who is married to a French. She left France 5 years ago, attracted by the possibility to get a steady job.

- I work here, my husband works in the hotel. He is the cook of the hotel of the resort. So we work, both of us directly depend on the resort.

- I have four cousins who work here. Well, the entire village depends on it.

- The elderly love it:

- a 50 percent-increase of visitors in 10 years. As a result hotels mushroom, 17 today, all of them set up by young people from the area.

- Before that, graduate students had no future here.

- And they left to town.

- Now, it is changing.

- Thanks to hotel development.

- They set up on their own.

- The next step, the building of a 4-star hotel with 80 additional rooms.