Italy s Dying Town seeks UNESCO heritage nod Reuters 1 hr ago
By Emily G Roe and Cristiano Corvino
CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO, Italy, April 6 (Reuters) - Calling yourself The Dying Town may not sound like the best way of attracting visitors, but Civita has learned to make a living out of dying.
And it has resisted definitive death for so long that Italy has nominated it and the surrounding area of stark cliffs and valleys known as badlands to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Centuries ago, the town was much larger and connected by road to other settlements. But landslides, earthquakes, cracks and erosion have reduced its size dramatically and left it sitting spectacularly alone at the top of a spur.
Italy s Dying Town seeks UNESCO heritage nod
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By Emily G Roe and Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - A year ago, Marzio Toniolo led a simple life as a primary school teacher, husband and father in the small northern Italian town of San Fiorano. Then San Fiorano and a cluster of other towns became the first red zone outside China to be put under lockdown after Italy diagnosed its first case of the coronavirus on Feb. 21. To cope with the crisis - which at one point involved four generations living in lockdown under one roof - Toniolo, 36, turned to one of his passions, photography, posting his pictures on social media. Reuters asked him to chronicle daily life inside one of the country s forbidden cities . Toniolo documented life at home and how COVID-19 ravaged the town and its daily rhythms, as the bells tolled for yet another victim. He has appeared on national television in Italy and his work has been seen around the world. His favourite photo shows his three-year-old daughter Bianca painting his toe nails red. His wife Chiara Zud
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