Ill-fated Spanish village poised to be destroyed a third time

Resident Lalo Aracil in front of the 12th-century parish church, destroyed by army training exercises. Photograph: Pablo Garcia/The Guardian

The stone and slate church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán held out for almost 1,000 years before surrendering to the bullet holes that dot its walls, the brambles that twist from its masonry and the rains that hammer its last rotting roof beam.

So, too, did the ill-fated pueblo it once served.