The steeple hints at what lies beneath the surface: namely, Curon, an Italian village that was flooded by the government in 1950 to create an artificial lake. Last week, reports BBC News ...

This southern Italian village was completely abandoned after landslides and earthquakes forced residents to leave, but the ...

Matera, situated in the southern reaches of the country, has received a lot of attention in recent years as a medieval Italian village of note. Its renowned historic centre bears the name "i Sassi ...

Christmas is year-round in Greccio, a small cliffside village in Lazio. The reason? This is where St Francis of Assisi created the first-ever nativity scene in a cave in 1223. The medieval village ...

With more and more dwindling Italian towns offering up neglected ... to purchase all of the neglected homes in the medieval district of the village, which has been pretty much abandoned since ...

Sirmione, a town of a little more than 8,000 on the Southern shores of Lake Garda, regularly attracts visitors due to its scenic beauty, classic Roman architecture and Scaligero Castle, was overrun by ...

"Mother gave them a loaf of bread because the poor things had nothing to eat," he said in Italian this month when ... cover behind the walls of a small Medieval monastery up on a hillside.

From the desolate medieval village of Craco ... Craco is a ghost town in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. More than a thousand years ago Craco was a busy city. It was abandoned ...