The Ghost Town of the Cinema: Craco (Basilicata)<\/strong><\/h3>\nIt’s called the \u201cghost city\u201d and really it is. The old houses of the village of Craco, located at the top of a mountain in the district of Matera<\/strong>, were left after a landslide and the habitants move to the valley. The ruins of the ancient architectures, surrounded from a silence and motionless landscape, interrupted just from the birds flight, make Craco as a surreal and fascinating place.
\nNot by chance it was a cinematographic set of several films: \u201cCristo si e`fermato a Eboli\u201d, \u201cBasilicata coast to coast\u201d, \u201cLa passione di Cristo\u201d of Mel Gibson and lots more.\u00a0Nowadays you can visit the village pass through some small street make safe with a guide tour organized from the City Hall.<\/p>\n![\"Craco](\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Craco-Jane-drumsara-870x490.jpg\")
<\/a>Craco, Basilicata, ph. by Jane drumsara, via Flickr<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
The Ghost Town of the myth: Pentedattilo (Calabria)<\/h3>\n
This beautiful ghost village is just at the top of the Monte Calvario<\/strong>, which shape remind a huge hand with five fingers, from here the name of the place (Penta+Daktilos= five fingers). Until few years ago this old village, fascinating and full of mystery, were completed abandoned. In fact the population moves to the valley, built a new village from where admire the old ghost village. Only recently few small local craft activities, a restaurant and some small shops gave back life to the old village.
\nEvery summer Pentadattilo is a fixed stage of the traveling festival Paleriza, important international event of the Calabria culture, and of Pentadattilo Film Festival, international festival of short movies.<\/p>\n![\"Pedentattilo](\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Pedentattilo-Luigi-Lacquaniti-870x490.jpg\")
<\/a>Pentadattilo, ph. by Luigi Lacquaniti, via Flick<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
The Ghost Town of toys: Consonno (Lombardia)<\/strong><\/h3>\nConsonno was a small and quite town in the district of Lecco until when, in the 60s a building contractor unscrupulous, Count Mario Bagno, bought all its territories and transform it in a city entertainment, a kind of \u201cItalian Las Vegas\u201d. But differently from the real Las Vegas, built on nothing, in the middle of the desert, a Consonno was destroyed the ancient village to make space for the new extravagant buildings. During few decades this foolish plan failed and Consonno has remained as a picturesque ghost city of toys, with his own history web site.<\/p>\n
![\"Consonno](\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Consonno-O.Cartu_.-870x490.jpg\")
<\/a>Consonno, ph. by O Cartu, via Flick<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
The Ghost Town of Utopia: Campomaggiore Vecchia (Basilicata)<\/h3>\n
Close to Potenza, Campomaggiore Vecchia<\/strong>, called also \u201ccity of utopia\u201d for his livability, remained uninhabited due to an earthquake at the end of the nineteenth century that forced the residents to move to the mount. The architect that project Campomaggiore Vecchia, in the late eighteenth century, Giovanni Patturelli, followed the utopian theories of Robert Owen and Charles Fourier. The village, designed for only 1600 people, was made of houses arranged in a checkerboard where each of them own a piece of land to cultivated, olive trees and a vineyard. In the center of the village there were a big square with a church and a Lord Palace, of which remained the ruins.<\/p>\n![\"Campomaggiore](\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Campomaggiore-Vecchia-Palazzo-Baronale-bartolomeo-perrotta-870x490.jpg\")
<\/a>Campomaggiore Vecchia, ruins of one of mains buildings, ph. by bartolomeo perrotta, via flickr<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
The Ghost Town in the Mountain of Laga: Valle di Piola (Abruzzo)<\/h3>\n
Close to Teramo<\/strong>, Valle di Piola is an ancient medieval village in the heart of the Parco Gran Sasso and of Monti della Laga, uninhabited from 1977, when also the last family move away. The stone houses are surrounded just by wild nature. There is just one white way that bring to Valle di Piola (Via della Fauna), which became paved trail inside the village and continues as mule-trail. Some building have the characterized balcony in wood with shed, called \u201cgafi\u201d (in dialect \u201clu gafie\u201d). Since few years this medieval village is put up for sale (just for 144\u20ac at the square meter) because the owner and the public institutions have no resources to recover this valuable historical asset.<\/p>\n
\nNot by chance it was a cinematographic set of several films: \u201cCristo si e`fermato a Eboli\u201d, \u201cBasilicata coast to coast\u201d, \u201cLa passione di Cristo\u201d of Mel Gibson and lots more.\u00a0Nowadays you can visit the village pass through some small street make safe with a guide tour organized from the City Hall.<\/p>\n
![\"Craco](\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Craco-Jane-drumsara.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n
The Ghost Town of the myth: Pentedattilo (Calabria)<\/h3>\n
This beautiful ghost village is just at the top of the Monte Calvario<\/strong>, which shape remind a huge hand with five fingers, from here the name of the place (Penta+Daktilos= five fingers). Until few years ago this old village, fascinating and full of mystery, were completed abandoned. In fact the population moves to the valley, built a new village from where admire the old ghost village. Only recently few small local craft activities, a restaurant and some small shops gave back life to the old village. <\/p>\n Consonno was a small and quite town in the district of Lecco until when, in the 60s a building contractor unscrupulous, Count Mario Bagno, bought all its territories and transform it in a city entertainment, a kind of \u201cItalian Las Vegas\u201d. But differently from the real Las Vegas, built on nothing, in the middle of the desert, a Consonno was destroyed the ancient village to make space for the new extravagant buildings. During few decades this foolish plan failed and Consonno has remained as a picturesque ghost city of toys, with his own history web site.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Close to Potenza, Campomaggiore Vecchia<\/strong>, called also \u201ccity of utopia\u201d for his livability, remained uninhabited due to an earthquake at the end of the nineteenth century that forced the residents to move to the mount. The architect that project Campomaggiore Vecchia, in the late eighteenth century, Giovanni Patturelli, followed the utopian theories of Robert Owen and Charles Fourier. The village, designed for only 1600 people, was made of houses arranged in a checkerboard where each of them own a piece of land to cultivated, olive trees and a vineyard. In the center of the village there were a big square with a church and a Lord Palace, of which remained the ruins.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Close to Teramo<\/strong>, Valle di Piola is an ancient medieval village in the heart of the Parco Gran Sasso and of Monti della Laga, uninhabited from 1977, when also the last family move away. The stone houses are surrounded just by wild nature. There is just one white way that bring to Valle di Piola (Via della Fauna), which became paved trail inside the village and continues as mule-trail. Some building have the characterized balcony in wood with shed, called \u201cgafi\u201d (in dialect \u201clu gafie\u201d). Since few years this medieval village is put up for sale (just for 144\u20ac at the square meter) because the owner and the public institutions have no resources to recover this valuable historical asset.<\/p>\n
\nEvery summer Pentadattilo is a fixed stage of the traveling festival Paleriza, important international event of the Calabria culture, and of Pentadattilo Film Festival, international festival of short movies.<\/p>\n<\/a>The Ghost Town of toys: Consonno (Lombardia)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
<\/a>The Ghost Town of Utopia: Campomaggiore Vecchia (Basilicata)<\/h3>\n
<\/a>The Ghost Town in the Mountain of Laga: Valle di Piola (Abruzzo)<\/h3>\n