High ceilings with decorative frescoes and wide staircases serve as silent evidence of the greatness of a bygone era. Despite the crumbling plaster and desolation around, these mansions are stunning examples of neoclassical architecture.
It is believed that throughout Italy there are more than three hundred such ghost villages - paesi fantasma - from the northern Alps to the lowlands in the south.
Crumbling beauty
These villages were abandoned by residents dozens of years ago. People left these beautiful picturesque places for various reasons. Economic or natural disasters (lack of work, repeated floods, landslides, etc.) forced the inhabitants of these villages to move to cities or to more suitable villages for life.
In addition to the old peasant estates, these villages have preserved the most beautiful buildings of villas, castles and churches, which are now slowly but surely in a deplorable state.
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Although the luxurious mansions of nobles in rural Italy continue to collapse, the colors of their frescoes are still vibrant, and their wide corridors are still breathtaking.
Gypsum crumbles on the floors of buildings built in the eighteenth - nineteenth century, and the plots in front of them grow like a jungle, hiding the buildings themselves.
Some of these buildings are bought and tried to be repaired by foreigners. So, for example, thanks to a travel company from Germany, the previously abandoned village of Castelfalfi in Tuscany turned into a resort.
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