Enter into Italy’s wasteland of ancient ghost towns, long abandoned and left to slowly crumble and fade under the hot southern sun.
There are more than 6,000 vacant villages in Italy, and Craco is just one of them. It’s hard to imagine that this eerily quiet medieval village once buzzed with life.
Once known as “Golden Mountain,” the settlement sits atop a 400-meter (1,300-foot) cliff in Basilicata, one of Italy’s most earthquake-prone regions. Once a populated and flourishing hamlet, all that’s left in Craco today are the roofless shells of houses, a former monastery, a decaying church, and empty streets and plazas….