La Republica. Tullio Fillippone. April 16, 2021. Danish designers, an American writer, Brazilian students, Argentine emigrants and returning Venezuelans. All interested in the houses in the historic center of Salemi, hit by the Belice earthquake. Thirteen years after the intuition of the then mayor Vittorio Sgarbi, who remained a dead letter, but was imitated by other Sicilian and southern...
Sicily on Web. Rosalba Mancuso. November 12, 2020 Salemi is a beautiful village tucked in one of the most awesome zones of Western Sicily: Belice Valley, in the likewise charming province of Trapani. The village became recently popular for putting dilapidated homes for sale for 1 euro. That is the umpteenth town in Sicily and Italy which put cheap properties for sale with the purpose to...
CNN. Silvia Marchetti. October 27, 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic may have irreversibly changed the world as we know it, but it seems there are some things that can still be counted on. And struggling towns in Italy selling off abandoned homes at bargain prices in a bid to reverse a trend of depopulation is undoubtedly one of them. The picturesque town of Salemi in Sicily is the latest to offer up...
The Florentine. MGI Vannucci & Associati. October 5, 2020 In 2008 the town of Salemi reached international headlines due to an interesting real estate program: houses on sale for 1 euro. Many foreigners who had always dreamed about being immersed in one of Italy’s mesmerizing towns and surrounded by its art and history, filed thousands of requests from all over the world. Nowadays,...