The mountain farms started dying out in the late 1950s, when sons and daughters opted for a life less strenous in the cities or in the villages along the coast, as the tourist business started growing and offered new jobs. There is a sad beauty in all these abandoned mountain farms though, before they totally collapse into an overgrown heap of stones. On the othe hand, some of the almond and cherry orchards are still being worked and kept, and there is hope that this rustic history does not disappear entirely.
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