Bisaccia, a picturesque destination in Italy's southern Campania region, is putting 90 dilapidated buildings on the market for one euro, joining other places across Italy trying to save dying communities by incentivizing people to move there.
But the latest town to offer tumbledown houses priced at just over a dollar wants buyers to bring it with them -- encouraging families or groups of friends to buy multiple properties.
Bisaccia's winning asset is that local authorities own all the empty houses abandoned years ago by residents who fled in search of a brighter future. In most other Italian towns offering one-euro homes, the transaction sometimes involves tricky dealings with the original owners. But they're also known for being fiery. Bisaccia's residents descend from the Italic tribes of the Samnites which inhabited the surrounding hills and fought bitterly against Imperial Rome before capitulating.The name"Bisaccia" is said to hail back to the Latin"vis" or"force." Its coat of arms features two lions fighting.
The newer blue, pink, green and yellow pastel-colored homes rise close to Baroque aristocratic palazzos with lavish façades and decorated balconies. The countryside offers trekking tours along old shepherd trails amid pristine nature and deep silence.
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