Not long after Sambuca, in Sicily, Italy tried to entice people to move there with houses for $1, a different quaint Italian village is offering an even better deal. Locana, a town located in the Italian Alps, will pay you…
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Another Italian Town Is Trying To Lure New Families With A Cash Offer
Posted in Steve Boyton, Whats Happening Tagged with: foreigners, Italian Alps, Italy, Locana, new families, offer, repopulate
Your Own Villa In Sicily For Less Than A Cup Of Coffee – With A Catch
For less than the price of a cup of coffee, you could purchase a villa on Italy’s southern island of Sicily. The small town of Sambuca di Sicilia is offering up homes in the town for approximately $1.75 in a…
Posted in Steve Boyton, Whats Happening Tagged with: disrepair, Italy, refurbish, renovate, revitalize, Sambuca di Sicilia, Sicily
Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Self-Correcting
Italy’s famous leaning tower of Pisa is not leaning so much anymore. The tower has self-corrected 4 centimeters, or 1.575 inches, over the last 20 years. The tower started leaning almost immediately after construction began in 1173, when the soft…
Posted in Steve Boyton, Whats Happening Tagged with: counter balance, Italy, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Marvel, physics, Science, self-correcting, Tourism, travel
We May Soon Be Wining About Wine Prices!
Bad news for wine lovers… your favourite cheap red could be getting more expensive. The International Vine & Wine Organization (OIV) reports that global wine production in 2017 fell to its lowest levels in 60 years, dropping 8.6 per cent…
Posted in Steve Boyton, Whats Happening Tagged with: bad weather, Climate, Europe, France, Italy, price hike, production levels, red wine, Spain
$1.50 Will Buy You A Home In Sardinia, But There’s A Catch
Looking to get away from it all? For just €1 (about $1.50), you can buy a Mediterranean country home in Sardinia’s mountainous Barbagia region. Ollolai, the region’s former capital, is selling hundreds of empty homes for next to nothing. Officials…
Posted in Steve Boyton, Whats Happening Tagged with: 1 Euro, cheap houses, fixer-upper, Italy, mountainous, Sardinia, to-good-to-be-true
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