Leonardo Ciaccio, mayor of Sambuca in Sicily, put 16 houses up for auction at a starting price of €1 early this year as part of an effort to halt the depopulation of his small town. Within weeks, more than 100,000 people, mostly from the U.S., requested information.
“We had to hire people who speak English,” Mr. Ciaccio said. “At some point, we were joking in the office that there was no point in answering the phone: Nobody calling spoke Italian.”
A little lodge in Savoca, preferably within walking distance of Bar Vitelli would be ideal, so we can watch Michael Corleone walk by...
Wait until he realizes the island is a target of African immigration!
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Italia
homelessnes in Italy.. Not little Italy but you know .. 🥺
Well the St. Louis man will regret later.
Every nation needs more immigrants.
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Wonder if they will take xrp?
If only there were thousands of people trying to get into Italy who would revitalize these neighborhoods.
This is not a Good news...a town is made of it's people..not foreigners like Trump building a New golf course..sad so sad..
Well....
That’s where my great papa is from.
Looks like Bivona, Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 is competing with other Italian towns like Cammarata, Mussomeli, Sambuca, Zungoli which are also selling houses for EUR $1 (USD $1.11203) 🏡😉😊
Better deal than the catacombs. ..........
Thought Seinfeld could not find a house there (maestro)
U need to see the town. It might be a really depressing part of italy like Stilo
ChrisEvans, let’s go halfsies on some rural Italian homes and just fucking rollerblade everywhere. Ancient cobbled streets be damned.
Is this the realtor after he signed the closing documents?
I want one
that is a long commute to Cleveland
Yeah but you have to live in Sicily...
Unfortunately the annual taxes, rates and conditional maintenance costs are in the region of $900,000 p.a. Always read the small print.
Would have been nice to know before the auction.
Do they really think selling these houses to wealthy Americans it will grow their population? it will just be another home for the rich that won’t spend more than 2 days a year there. Why not a refugee family that would bring new life to the area.Stepping off mybrokeasssoapbox
Plenty of refugees.....
A friend of mine bought a house in Sicily about 10 years ago, couple of locals came up and offered her to provide security for the house at 300 euros a month. She politely refused. The house was robbed a week later (laptop, etc). Just a random anecdote.
He could have told me. I have a spare Euro laying around.
Hahaha
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