1 January 2022
Craco - The Abandoned Town
Back in 1963 massive landslides made the inhabitants of the hilltop town of Craco in Italy shrug their shoulders one last time and move elsewhere. As no one wished to (or could…) move in the place was left to nature. Today although the local authorities have made attempts to rehabilitate the town as a tourist attraction it remains eerily abandoned. If a town could have a beautiful corpse this is it, as amply demonstrated by Walter Molfese’s amazing film.
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