They purchased an abandoned village in Italy and allowed it to deteriorate.

They purchased an abandoned village in Italy and allowed it to deteriorate.

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With more and more dwindling Italian towns offering up neglected homes at bargain prices, snapping up an abandoned house in the country has become increasingly popular in recent years.

The Sicilian town of Sambuca di Sicilia has apparently become something of an Italian “Little America” after attracting headlines when it began selling off dwellings for little over a dollar back in 2019.

However, a group of Italians originally from the forsaken village of San Severino di Centola, located in the Province of Salerno, Campania, decided to go one step further by buying an entire hamlet of abandoned houses for €40,000 ($47,000).

2023-03-20 09:35:31
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