True Love! This couple have been the only people living in Spanish village for 45 years

A couple have been the only inhabitants in a Spanish village for 45years.. When the Spanish Civil War tore through Spain in 1936, thousands of people fled the country's rural towns for the cities in search of work.

From these conditions emerged the unlikely love story of Juan Martin and Sinforosa Colomer - a couple who refused to abandon their small village where they have lived by themselves for the past 45 years.

The couple, now aged 79 and 82 respectively, work the land and take care of a few dozen cats and dogs in a town that was once home to 200 residents.

A short film by Jungles in Paris has detailed the simple but hard life the couple live in the isolated town, located around 100miles from Valencia, in the country's east.

Juan Martin told the filmmakers he would have left many years ago, but his wife grew up in the city and it was there they had a daughter, who tragically died aged eight.

He explained:

 'Because my wife was born in this place, she has always lived here. She doesn't want to leave.'Had it been up to me, I would have left the town a long time ago. But I can't leave her by herself.'

The town, like any other rural village, once had a mayor, policeman, priest and professional teachers

He told the filmmakers he met her one day when they were young as she was bringing the cattle in from the fields.From there, the couple got to know each other.

In one moment in the film, the two are filmed eating lunch together in silence when Sinforosa gently scolds her husband.

'How much oil have you put [on the food]?' she asks. 'Don't you see the lettuce is plain?'

With a grace borne of extreme familiarity, he simply chuckles at her reproach, rather than offering a retort.

 

Culled from Mailonline