It means old, decrepit. Old-fashioned, aged, outdated, decadent, ruinous. They look like ruins.
Felipe Lorenzo del Río
The city of the Regenta de Clarín . An old city, as its name suggests, of hypocritical and puritanical morality, dominated by a decadent aristocracy and a corrupt clergy, a reflection of nineteenth-century Spanish provincial society.
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