[GOPsterinMA]

There’s many of these in Italy.

The town where my grandparents were born is at least 50% abandoned. Gone. Shuttered.

There are efforts to revitalize some of these places though. Grants for “cottage industries” like cheese making and regions with specific types of olives, as examples.

[SunkenCiv]

The gubmint over there has some abandoned (or nearly abandoned) towns for sale at €1 per house, but you have a mere three years to get 'er done. Turns out, if you renovate and leave part of the renovation undone, you can avoid taxes on the property, and the gubmint doesn't care for that. Lots of vids about people who have, including a floating head video of a woman who's done it and has some cautions. And there is poignant stuff like this.

My great-grandfather, Cesto Fiori, came from this isolated, abandoned village in the Apennine Mountains of northern Italy. Take a walk through the ruins with us in this village that was "Tutti Fiori," or only inhabited by the Fiori family. | Walk through an Abandoned Village in Italy | touchingupmyroots | Oct 12, 2009

[gleeaikin]

I thought this was going to be about villages where almost everyone had died of Covid.