{"id":13691,"date":"2017-04-22T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=13691"},"modified":"2017-04-25T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:58:54","slug":"badolato-calabrian-village-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/badolato-calabrian-village-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Badolato, the Calabrian village adopted by foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Before I came to Badolato I had never heard of Badolato, this village 30 km from Catanzaro (Italy) with an old part at 250 meters above sea level &#8220;Badolato superiore&#8221; and a new&#8221;Marina&#8221; on the sea.<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13695\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_061-870x490.jpg\" alt=\"Badolato\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_061-870x490.jpg 870w, https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_061-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But its peculiarity is not in being a <strong>well-kept medieval village<\/strong> with ancient traditions especially in the Easter week, or in a typical gastronomy, is in being a place of deep <strong>welcoming<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>harmony.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13694\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-13694\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_037-870x490.jpg\" alt=\"Easter week in Badolato\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_037-870x490.jpg 870w, https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_037-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Easter week in Badolato<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13697\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-13697\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_118-870x490.jpg\" alt=\"Easter week in Badolato\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_118-870x490.jpg 870w, https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_118-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Easter week in Badolato<\/div><\/div>\n<p>This place is chosen as a &#8220;<strong>buen retiro<\/strong>&#8221; by many couples\u00a0of <strong>Northern<\/strong> <strong>Europe<\/strong>: Wales, Sweden, Denmark. Once in retirement they decide to buy and renovate typical houses: built in height, with a\u00a0cellar underground, in the middle there&#8217;s\u00a0the room and on the top floor the kitchen from which the smoke of the oven\u00a0comes out. They keep everything intact, recovering furniture and reusing the elements giving it new life, adding a pinch of their northern style and their memories to live this street piece. On the terraces facing the sea, they host <strong>travelers<\/strong>, make\u00a0coffee, tell, listen to different voices and dialects. They open the doors of their homes and share, demonstrating that they have absorbed the <strong>atmosphere<\/strong> <strong>of the village<\/strong>. Not only foreigners but also Italians are buying the houses of the village making them their holidays or life residence: from Genoa, from Naples. Looking for a different way of life between these mountains overlooking the sea, on the &#8220;<strong>Riviera and Villages of the Angels<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13693\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_002.jpg\" alt=\"Badolato\" width=\"2848\" height=\"4272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_002.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_002-536x804.jpg 536w, https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Badolato_002-344x516.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2848px) 100vw, 2848px\" \/><br \/>\nBadolato&#8217;s <strong>historical<\/strong> and <strong>architectural recovery<\/strong> is known all over the world. You can read about Badolato in many languages \u200b\u200band on many magazines.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, the Calabrian village was provocatively sold because it was emptied and forgotten, and in the 1990&#8217;s it was news that it was willing to welcome refugees. Here the short film of <strong>Win Wenders<\/strong> &#8220;The Flight&#8221;\u00a0was shot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uEsa6jAn3RQ?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of tourism can you experience\u00a0in Badolato?<\/strong> A <strong>slow<\/strong> <strong>tourism<\/strong>, slow pace in a dense social fabric. Even the most shy\u00a0people will be able to talking to others simply because they have crossed their gaze.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye on the timetable because here you can try\u00a0harvesting, <strong>olive harvesting<\/strong>, live Easter week with all its celebrations, the sea in summer, Yoga in September and a wealth of activities that can be activated through Riviera and Borgo degli Angeli.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in Badolato you can live\u00a0a <strong>sustainable tourism<\/strong>, walking\u00a0up and down the village, in contact with people and in the middle of ancient roots,\u00a0eating local\u00a0products, cultivated just a few steps from where they are consumed.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><em>Cover photo by\u00a0<a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Vai al fotostream di freshcreator\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/freshcreator\/\">freshcreator<\/a>\u00a0via Flickr\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>You might also like:<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-year-of-villages-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Year of Villages in Italy<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/hiking-trails-wonderful-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 10 most wonderful Hiking Trails in the world<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I came to Badolato I had never heard of Badolato, this village 30 km from Catanzaro (Italy) with an old part at 250 meters above sea level &#8220;Badolato superiore&#8221; and a new&#8221;Marina&#8221; on the sea. But its peculiarity is not in being a well-kept medieval village with ancient traditions especially in the Easter week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[869],"tags":[1934,296,25,364,58,59,60,71,73,1313],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Badolato, the Calabrian village adopted by foreigners - Ecobnb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Up and down the village, in contact with people and in the middle of ancient roots: let&#039;s discover Badolato, the medieval village of Calabria\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/badolato-calabrian-village-italy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Badolato, the Calabrian village adopted by foreigners - 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