SNAPSHOT: Civita di Bagnoregio, the Dying City

Perched on a crumbling plateau in the Etruscan countryside, Civita di Bagnoregio is a town made romantic in its doom. For centuries, the city has been sliding into the valley below– a very slow and dramatic death.

I couldn’t help but wonder what it must be like for the psyches of the less than a dozen remaining residents to live in a place so precariously near its demise. And yet, the city remains strikingly beautiful and the sun still warms the stone.

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Walk the lone remaining street and gaze through doorways that lead nowhere. Grab a glass of wine. Pet the numerous cats who lounge throughout, smug harbingers of the inevitable.

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