Are ghost citiesbecause only the spirits that inhabit them remain. Someone has called them the people who leave, to photograph a movement, a gradualness, something that is never sudden, but often definitive.
They are peoples against which nature has been taught, stepmother and ruthless: object of landslides, earthquakes, shipwrecks of human companies. Now depopulated, completely or almost; stripped of civilization, to the point of looking false. But beautiful with that intrinsic transience, the sensation of ruin tattooed in every corner, the silence that fills any bend.
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Istat has calculated that there are more than a thousand throughout the Italian country, including the islands. Of many there is only one memory, a lot of bricks, an asphalt tape between the weeds. Some have entered the myth, memory, real history and the history of cinema. Here is the unmissable Italian ghost cities that must be discovered.
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