Not many people would dispute the jaw-dropping beauty of Italy’s Civita di Bagnoregio village. 74 miles north of Rome has a population of just 10 people, who live amid twisting stone paths and centuries-old houses that are perched atop sheer cliffs overlooking deep ravines to the sea beyond. one detail separates it from almost every other town: It is reachable only by way of a footbridge suspended at great height over the valley. walking on the footbridge is awesome experience.
Alessio Pagliara, who runs the village tourism office, tells Fortune. “It is 1,200 years old, very well preserved, and it has a panoramic view.”
The original Etruscan residents chose to build hilltop villages in Italy, in order to escape the malaria-ridden lowlands. But 21st-century Civita di Bagnoregio faces bigger perils: Landslides and rockfalls that could render it uninhabitable forever. “Every year is different from the next,” says Pagliara, who is bracing for whatever disaster this coming winter might bring. “Any year could be very damaging.”
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| A family on vacation foutside the San Donato Church in Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy, Credit The New York Times |
Locals cannot afford to wait to rebuild the city in 2013 they began charging visitors €1.50 (about $1.67) to enter the village, helping it to raise maintenance funds. Pagliara says about 43,000 people visited in August,
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The footbridge that leads to Civita di Bagnoregio, (Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times)Worth a visit once in your lifetime |
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