Set of a Biggest Flop TV Show by BBC Preserved as a GHOST TOWN in Spain...

The collection of deserted whitewashed buildings has been preserved by the heat and the dry mountain air in a pine forest 10 miles north-east of Marbella.

The purpose-built site provided the backdrop to the doomed 1992 serial, which lasted just 156 episodes before being axed despite costing licence payers more than £10 million.Much of the money was spent on creating the set, which was supposed to replicate the sunshine and simplicity of life in Australian soaps such as Home and Away and Neighbours.

Fifteen years after it was created, the set lies empty except for the former dressing rooms which are rented out to holidaymakers.The 18 apartments and three villas are empty and the once-alluring crystal blue swimming pool has turned green and is used by ducks.

The site was briefly used as a holiday camp but that suffered the same fate as the programme, which was based on the lives of British ex-pats in Spain.