Pentedattilo is a ghost town on the Monte Calvario, whose five strange pinnacles resemble that of five fingers, hence its name “five fingers” from the Greek penta + daktylos.
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In 1963 a landslide caused the evacuation of the remaining 1,800 inhabitants to a nearby valley called Craco Peschiera, while the original Craco remained in a state of crumbling decay.Ĭraco has since remained untouched, offering the rare sight of a true ghost town, with its deserted streets and houses that were left exactly as they were inside, as if it was abandoned overnight.īecause of its dramatic landscape and unique atmosphere Craco has been used as a backdrop for many movies, among which Mel Gibson’s The Passion (more specifically, the hanging of Judas), the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace and Bruce Beresford’s King David. Poor farming, added to earthquakes, landslides, and war, all contributed to a mass migration of Craco’s population to North America between 18. Below are some of the most intriguing Italian Ghost towns (in alphabetical order per region). In Italy, a large concentration of these abandoned small villages can be found in the impoverished and seismically active portions of the Southern regions, but there are also ghost towns in Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Lazio. What is particularly intriguing and compelling is that many of them seem to have been left untouched, as if abandoned almost overnight, often leaving evidence of a past that seems to have been frozen in time. Often the original city has been moved to a nearby site, while the ruins of the ghost cities have been given a second life as artist colonies, or as refuges for squatters and (illegal) immigrants. These reasons can be the lack of modern conveniences, the obsolescence of the local economic activity (mining), the construction of new roads and railways that bypass the original town, the depletion of natural resources or simply due to the dwindling of an elderly population. There’s also Gunkanjima Digital Museum on the mainland where you can safely explore the island’s no-go zones through VR.Ghost towns are towns or villages that have been abandoned by their original inhabitants, either due to a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or landslide, or for economic, demographic, environmental or structural reasons. The island was off-limits to the public for decades, but today you can enjoy the eerie atmosphere of the abandoned island in person, with several companies offering daily boat tours. It bristles with dense clusters of concrete towers that once housed thousands of workers but have stood silent and motionless since the mines closed in 1974. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the island was used as a base for undersea coal mining.
Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015, Gunkanjima proudly embodies Japan’s strength during the Meiji Industrial Revolution.
The island was also featured in in the 2012 movie Skyfall. It is often known as Gunkanjima, “Battleship Island,” because its rugged form resembles a Japanese battleship. Hashima Island rises from the azure waters off Nagasaki City at the far western tip of Japan's main islands. Set Sail for the Abandoned City of GunkanjimaĮxplore industrial history on this island off the coast of Nagasaki
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