Properties for sale in Polopos

Local overview

Polopos is a village in the municipality Polopos-La Mamola in the province of Granada, Spain. Polopos used to be the main village with 1200 villagers living there in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the families moved away in the second half of the 20th century to find work in the cities or to live on the coast. As of 2019 it was home to 53 people.

Polopos got a boost in popularity due to Dutch reality TV program Het Spaanse Dorp Polopos (the Spanish village Polopos) in 2019. Five Dutch couples were followed to see who was most successful in restoring a dilapidated house allotted to each of them, setting up a business in the village, learning Spanish and integrating with the local population. Spanish media regularly visit the village to see if the experiment of the TV show is successful in fighting the general problem of 'España vaciada', or empty Spain, where villages with an ever decreasing and ageing population are deteriorating more and more and are sometimes abandoned all together.

Official geography

The official INE register places Polopos in Granada province under municipality code 18162. The linked structured record provides a recorded municipal area of 26.79 square kilometres and a reference coordinate of 36.7956, -3.2972. The coordinate is a municipal reference point, not a property, parcel boundary or radius from which local claims are inferred.

Settlements and local form

Polopos’ current IGN settlement record contains 6 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-17. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is La Mamola, at a recorded elevation of approximately 5 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include La Guapa (239 residents in the cited settlement record), Haza del Trigo (113 residents in the cited settlement record), Castillo de Baños Arriba (111 residents in the cited settlement record), Polopos (110 residents in the cited settlement record), and Castillo de Baños Abajo (90 residents in the cited settlement record). Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

How this guide keeps the evidence local

The data sections below keep Polopos’ municipality evidence separate from wider province and regional comparisons. This prevents similarly named places in other provinces from being blended together. Where a municipality-level series is unavailable, the page labels the province fallback explicitly; current NLS asking inventory remains separate from completed-sale, demographic and cadastral evidence.