Civita di Bagnoregio, the dying Town

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Civita Di Bagnoregio the dying town

Civita was founded by Etruscans more than 2,500 years ago and it was the birthplace of Saint Bonaventure, whose boyhood house has long since fallen off the edge of the cliff. By the 16th century, Civita was beginning to decline, becoming eclipsed by its former suburb Bagnoregio. Civita di Bagnoregio owes much of its unaltered condition to its relative isolation; the town was able to withstand most intrusions of modernity as well as the destruction brought by two world wars.

First time I went to Bagnoregio it was April 2005, a lovely yet quite cold spring day, still one of those Sundays with my family when we used to go out for a daily trip in some place close to Rome. The most stunning thing about Civita di Bagnoregio is the long and thin bridge that links the lonely town on top of the mountain to the

has been very popular during the last years among tourists: it has been very hyped up since it is one of the endangered towns in the whole world. In fact, it is said to be a dying town: the population varies from about 7 people in winter to more than 100 in summer thanks to a small B&B.

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