If you've ever wished that you could live in one of the charming tumbledown hamlets scattered across the hills of the Italian countryside, you might be about to get lucky. Developers have (at last) realised that people looking to own in Italy want a property that's as authentic as ...
Whether destroyed during war, evacuated for ammunition practice or left after nearby precious metals and minerals turned out to be in short supply, these are the world’s most fascinating abandoned towns and cities.
Thesebeautiful abandoned placesweren’t always this way. At some point, people occupied them and were full of life. It can be hard to picture whatghost townsused to look like, but here are some reasons why they might have been evacuated. Thereason for people moving there no longer exists....
Number of PagesVIII, 162 TopicsComputational Intelligence,Artificial Intelligence,Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) Publish with us Back to top Access this book Subscribe and save Springer+ Basic €32.70 /Month Get 10 units per month ...
This is the granddaddy of all ghost towns. Pripyat emptied overnight after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Nearly 50,000 people called this Soviet-planned city home, and now it’s a time capsule of 1980s Soviet life. That abandoned amusement park with its lonely ferris wheel has become the pos...
When you think of ghost towns, you probably imagine some abandoned mining town in the Old West, complete with dusty saloons and tumbleweeds. But...
Craco, Italy Photo: Andrea Tomassi Flikr CC BY-SA 2.0 Once a flourishing commune, the town ofCracoin the Province of Matera was completely abandoned due to natural disasters — namely a devastating flood in 1972 and an earthquake in 1980. While no one lives in the town, Craco has become...
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Top 10 Towns People Abandoned For No Reason 10Cape Romano Dome House Photo credit:travelawaits In 1980, Bill Lee started work on his dream: an eco-friendly and self-sufficient home on Cape Romano on the Gulf Coast of Florida. It took three years and a lot of hard work, but by 1982 ...