Lonely Planet. Silvia Marchetti With dozens of towns in Italy selling old, crumbling dwellings for less than the cost of an espresso, picking the right location might be a tough call. But what if it were by the seaside and you could walk straight to the beach from the living room? The city of Taranto in Puglia is placing a new lot of abandoned homes on the market for just €1 – a...
The Independent. Helen Coffey. @LenniCoffey. 30 January 2020 A city has become the first in Italy to join a scheme offering homes for just 1 euro. Taranto, a coastal city in the south that sits on the western edge of Italy's heel, has joined the ranks of villages that have already signed up to the initiative in a bid to boost dwindling rural populations. However, unlike the other participants, Taranto is...
The Telegraph. Nick Squires. January 27, 2020. The trail was blazed by hill-towns and villages across the country but now, for the first time, an Italian city is offering its abandoned palazzi for the nominal sum of €1 (85p). Taranto, in the deep south of Italy, hopes to breathe new life into its picturesque but dilapidated old town, which sits on an island squeezed between a lagoon and the open...