Craco was caught up in the upheaval of the Italian unification in the 19th ... including Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ (2004). Ghost towns have a particular poignance in Italy, where ...
The village of Pentedattilo, in the southern Italian region of Calabria ... hand with five fingers pointing towards the sky. The old town was nestled around a castle, whose ruins can still ...
From a distance Castelluccio looks the same as it has done for 1,000 years, a beautiful hilltop town in the midst of ... No-one is allowed up into this ghost village at 1,452m (4,760 ft).