Take a photographic tour through the country’s effort to revitalize its rural towns Left, the 19th-century Church of Santa Lucia, in Longiaru, in northern Italy. Right, the largely abandoned ...

Faced with the depopulation of certain villages, an Italian province has taken major steps to encourage people to settle in the area and give it a boost. A solution that comes at a cost. Indeed, to ...

The stunning region of Trentino in northern Italy is offering a tempting €100,000 ... Currently, deserted properties outnumber occupied ones in the 33 towns earmarked for the project.

One reason for the recent pervasive infiltration of southern-Italian crime organizations into the country’s northern regions ... resettle far from their home towns, say Paolo Buonanno of the ...