Noja (Cantabria)
Noja (Cantabria) has 2,500 registered inhabitants, however they aren’t straightforward to search out. They mix in with the 1000’s of holidaymakers who, for a number of months of the yr, crowd the seashores of this Cantabrian municipality. That is the municipality in Spain with probably the most “sporadic use” properties, based on the INE: greater than 50% of the properties within the city are second properties. To a sure extent, Noja is a city that appears like a metropolis. Throughout the yr, strolling round there’s like strolling by a ghost city: closed retailers, lowered shutters and avenues with out vehicles. However, throughout the summer time months, the small Cantabrian city reaches peaks of greater than 80,000 inhabitants, a inhabitants larger than that of many provincial capitals.
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A lot of the homes are owned by Basque residents who’ve a flat there the place they’ll spend their holidays. The Tourism Survey printed by the INE each three months confirms that Noja is the place that concentrates the best variety of Basque guests. The reason for thus many Basques having homes in Noja is the liquidations and severance funds of the commercial sector in Euskadi. Planning the general public providers of a municipality that has such a big fluctuation of inhabitants from one month to a different turns into a posh job: the well being centre, the festivals or the native police, who’re many in winter and few in summer time.
