Its brown brick buildings dot the hillside, creating an eerily beautiful ... faced by rural communities and is one of Italy's ...

Today Matera is the fastest-growing city in Italy at a time when so many southern towns are losing population. This year, ...

Italy's rural towns just don't have enough people in them. That's why so many of them have launched last-ditch schemes in a bid to resuscitate their economies. Most recently, the entire region of ...