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Many Roman Catholics would associate casino games and gambling with deadly sins, so the response of Father Lorenzo, the 80-year-old, bespectacled priest, to plans to build a city of casinos and theme parks next to the village, is surprising.

"In general I think it's a good idea," he says. "I suppose it brings economic and moral development that depends on the individual."

One survey found that more than 80% of the people who live in the region favour the scheme that would see more than 30 casino hotels, a convention centre, theme parks, golf courses, a racecourse and a dog track, constructed on an area of countryside the size of 1,500 football pitches. Ontinena, in the Spanish region of Aragon, is about two hours drive from Barcelona and has a population of 600. It is bordered by the Monegros Desert and farmland dedicated to cereal crops.

Jaime Riera, an ILD spokesperson, says the owners of the land are willing to sell and that finding the estimated $20bn (£14bn) to fund the scheme, even in the economic crisis, is no problem. "We have never had problems regarding financing," he says. "I am so confident because you can have the land, you can have the institutional support and you can have the money, but in this case I think we have everything to make the cocktail wonderful."

The mayor has dozens of CVs sent in by people who hope to be employed if this casino city starts construction later this year. "It's a great project and it represents the future of Ontinena, the region and all Spain, so the town council is strongly behind it to make sure it happens as quickly as possible," says Mr Torres. ILD estimates that 200,000 people will be employed directly or indirectly by its leisure city. The socialist regional government of Aragon also supports the project and is backing a law to approve the project, which is expected to be passed by the end of June with the support of the opposition conservatives.

The government says the law would enforce all legal guarantees and environmental controls on the scheme. Spain's unemployment rate is one of the the highest in Europe and this isolated region is badly in need of investment and jobs. Many people see this proposed leisure city as their best hope for a brighter future.

The Gran Scala complex will fill 20 square kilometres of the Los Monegros desert, located about half-way between Madrid and Barcelona, with about 32 casinos, 70 hotels, 232 restaurants and more than 500 stores. There will be a golf course, a race track and a bullring.Th casino complex will include replicas of the Egyptian pyramids, various Roman temples and a mock-up of the Pentagon that will become home to Spyland, the first of several planned theme parks. “There is not, nor will there be, another entertainment complex like this in Europe,” argued Nicholas Khin, a spokesman for Aristocrat Technologies, one of 12 international groups behind the project.

Watch the official presentation about Gran Scala