Explore a Ghost Town in Southern Italy

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In southern Italy's Calabria region, the ghost town of Roghudi Vecchio is not far from its former inhabitants' new homes, but the area's mountainous terrain makes the old village remote.
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The abandoned hillside village of Roghudi Vecchio, in Italy’s Aspromonte mountains was founded in the eleventh century. And the roots of its former residents may extend to ancient times. This region, Calabria, is the toe at the tip of Italy's boot. And when the Greeks started colonizing the area in the eighth century BC, Calabria was a toehold. Over the centuries, southern Italy again received Hellenic immigrants, displaced from the eastern Mediterranean. Newcomers either revived a flagging Greek-speaking minority, or reintroduced a language that had died out locally. Incredibly, even today there are a few thousand Greek speakers in Calabria. One village where you might hear the local dialect of Greko, or Italian Greek, is Roghudi Nuovo-New Roghudi-part of a cluster of Ionian seacoast towns on the outskirts of the city of Reggio. Today’s Roghudi was founded by people from Old Roghudi-Roghudi Vecchio, when floods forced virtually everyone out.
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@NatGeo 6 жыл бұрын

When a flood in 1970 left Roghudi Vecchio uninhabitable, it became a ghost town. What are your thoughts on this abandoned village?

@mdtoha62 6 жыл бұрын

I wish if I could live there...

@reygood1 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful... but not meant for modern living. Could be a destination for tourism.

@UfoglobalItaliaAlieniMisteri 6 жыл бұрын

Adoro i vostri documentari!!!!

@shkabashkaba4330 6 жыл бұрын

National Geographic, They were Albanian , not hellenic. The spoke Albanian (Arvanit) not Greek . You being 'Nation Geographic' you need to ensure that you are not changing historical facts because people look to you for education. Calabria means 'castle on a hill' in Albanian' (Kala - Castle) Bri (Horn).

@80sguy27 6 жыл бұрын

Can I get to live there?

@Sal1kos 3 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Tzane 🕊

@user-un3nd6wx1t 3 ай бұрын

RIP TZANE

@leosev 3 ай бұрын

Rip tzane

@aniruddha_mandal 6 жыл бұрын

I love ghost towns!! Hope to visit at least one!!

@sheilamae8071 6 жыл бұрын

A Mandal and stay for a day or two? haha JK 😊😊

@NatGeo 6 жыл бұрын

It would be such a unique experience to visit ghost towns such as Roghudi Vecchio. To learn more about this village, read on: on.natgeo.com/2rxCy13

@aspirant0009 4 жыл бұрын

Go uttrakhand you'll find many ghost villages there

@Paikths_ 3 ай бұрын

Rip

@AzlianaLyana 6 жыл бұрын

This place must have been fertile previously, enough to sustain for a thousand years at least. I wonder how or what went wrong, leading to the decline of the old Roghudi. Still, looks like some place worth visiting with a mysterious, historical, and perhaps adventurous vibe. Thanks for sharing National Geographic.

@legnodinoce312 6 жыл бұрын

Azliana Lyana This is tipical calabrian vegetations. Many hills look like those.

@jippalippa 6 жыл бұрын

there is also CRACO, an other italian ghost town

@tanyajuli4145 6 жыл бұрын

It was odd that the town is only a millenia old if it was a greek town given that the Greeks colonized between 5th Cent B.C. and 2nd Cent BC. If this WAS founded by the greek colonists, then its over 2000 y.o. To answer your question Azliana, earthquakes are prone in the region, and at least one EQ hit the region in the 1700s that demolished many villages and cathedrals. I was an archeo working in one of the buried Mamertine towns (greek mercenary settlements) and we uncovered a lot of stuff from those earthquakes. In addition, they mention flooding in the video and you can see how precarious the cliffside dwellings are perched up on the narrow islet. Its a great defensive position but bad if flooding undercuts the hillside and you have the risk of EQs and cant get to your pastures from the flooding.

@natalie6251 6 жыл бұрын

Azliana Lyana b

@tanyajuli4145 5 жыл бұрын

@Lummux tantalizing comment. Elaborate please. I lived there for years and just couldn't get enuf of the prehistory nor history.

@jamesgerman7947 6 жыл бұрын

This is pretty cool. My wife is from a place much like this called Apice in Benevento, Italy. They they did the same for the inhabitants in the 60s they relocated everyone to Nuevo Apice.

@NatGeo 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience with another ghost town, James! To learn more about Roghudi Vecchio, read on: on.natgeo.com/2rxCy13

@zosimopablo9943 4 жыл бұрын

It is a magnificent place, it is the world's precious treasure

@MorpheusOne 6 жыл бұрын

Looks like a very old (Ancient?) dry river-bed at the bottom of the valley. It would be interesting to go there with a metal detector and see what one could dig up.

@raffaeleirlanda6966 5 жыл бұрын

It is a fiumara, a season depending torrent/river. Usually these are dry in Summer and become real rivers in Winter. If it occurs a storm upper the mountains, even in Summer hot season, such a river could became very dangerous as in US or Mexico canyon floods.

@technicalworkerforandroid421 6 жыл бұрын

That's great thanks

@4rfrgr4 6 жыл бұрын

would love to visit Italy ,wild world with beautiful stories and history

@archanakadam4653 4 жыл бұрын

Don't. Corona outbreak. Stay safe😢

@massinissaziriamazigh8122 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like my village in algeria (north africa) I can live here ❤For the rest of my life

@ribbs13 3 жыл бұрын

Really beautiful. And beautifully shot.

@UfoglobalItaliaAlieniMisteri 6 жыл бұрын

Adoro i vostri documentari!!!!

@user-chardonneret 6 жыл бұрын

Lovely

@mahmoodbahram9130 6 жыл бұрын

wow so beautiful town

@Scorparachkeeper 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful vids amazing!

@forestsoceansmusic 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent video thank you. Looks like a very interesting place to visit. : )

@saugatnepal8266 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome place

@ElNietoPR 6 жыл бұрын

How about you source the music in your videos?

@hellothisisron6158 6 жыл бұрын

El Nieto PR Darude-Sandstorm

@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- 6 жыл бұрын

Adobe Premiere Pro stock audio #3403

@Emadavid 6 жыл бұрын

El Nieto PR exactly I was about to comment that enjoyed the music more than the video itself. Also, are you from PR?

@ElNietoPR 6 жыл бұрын

Yessir, from Humacao.

@Emadavid 6 жыл бұрын

El Nieto PR nice, I'm from Toa Baja, have a good night fellow countryman

@swami0095 6 жыл бұрын

Nice

@farhani29 6 жыл бұрын

È molto bello

@jagritsharma6576 6 жыл бұрын

Dunno why... But i got Uncharted feels seeing this video!

@rromero1318 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing how does people live there

@AndreaLabate 6 жыл бұрын

I shot this :) thanks National Geographic!

@BewitchinGinger 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know where they got the music?

@AndreaLabate 3 жыл бұрын

13xxi not really

@davidlape4943 6 жыл бұрын

NatGeo💕

@PhDarien Жыл бұрын

Just flew right by this 2 days ago. I figured there was something on KZfaq about it.

@sureshmalik1462 4 жыл бұрын

i from to nepal but i love italey

@chickbug5889 6 жыл бұрын

Perfect for fantasy adventure movies..

@Asterra2 6 жыл бұрын

How do NatGeo-caliber videos manage to get posted to KZfaq with mono audio in 2018?

@Silkendrum 6 жыл бұрын

Is that a river of mud? It looks like cement.

@sararichero3503 6 жыл бұрын

It's rocks of the bottom of the river showing because since it's summer, the river is now only s tiny little stream: it's pretty usual in Italy to have little to no rain in summer so rivers get ridiculously dry... Only the Alpine-sourced rivers stay quite big thanks to the melting of ice. So Italy dries up during summer and suddenly, in fall, it starts to rain a lot. Too much, actually, for the dried steeped lands of the Italian peninsula hence the floods that cause disasters each year and take too much time to the municipalities to repair some times so cities end up with entires areas enclosed for safety that never get fixed or that are abusively rebuilt or that stay in an in between due to lack of fundings... Next to my house, the main street was blocked by the fall of a rock due to a flood. It took a year to be removed forcing all the habitants of our village to do a 12 km detour to get to the main city which we are entirely dependent because there is no shop or post office or anything in our village except two functioning churches

@CaroLMilo-yz7fk 6 жыл бұрын

Sara Richero Oh my God, my compassion to you. 12km!!! That's quite a resilience challenge.. Interesting. Also thanks for the explanations about the "cement" look of the river. I wondered too.

@sararichero3503 6 жыл бұрын

thanks ^^ No problem ;)

@daniloslipknot 6 жыл бұрын

As 12 casas do zodíaco (Saint Seiya)

@brooklynnhall9061 6 жыл бұрын

Seems like irrigating above this land made it unlivable with its water sources anyway

@fitzgeraldmistral97 6 жыл бұрын

These BUILDINGS are anything BUT ancient.

@GandalfTheTsaagan 6 жыл бұрын

Fitzgerald Mistral The buildings per se not but the town could have that history. Barcelona was a roman town once and all what's left of that is underground.

@TheAnarchistBeekeeper 6 жыл бұрын

Nobody said the buildings were ancient (they were probably built around 100/150 years ago), what they said is that the village was continuously inhabited for thousands of years before being abandoned, the inhabitants of this village were still speaking Greek even 1.000 years after that land was latinzed: this can tell you how ancient and isolate that region is.

@smartcatcollarproject5699 6 жыл бұрын

yes, some walls look like they were built in the 1960's or 70's, just before they had to leave... the village and its architecture are clearly much older.

@raffaeleirlanda6966 5 жыл бұрын

Look careful and you will distinguish houses of hundred years with collapsed wooden roofs covered with tiles, the houses built upto the '50s with stone bricks but with cement roofs and more modern tiles, and the part with cement pillars, and cemented red light bricks that are common for building after '50s and still today. It seems in 1970 there had enough money to justify they were enlarging their houses but they had no enough time to put coats on the walls that are still raw. It must be houses of emigrants in the North of Italy or Germany who got back for summers in their hometown just to build a new house, or adding another room or even a new wing for their homes. At least I can spot the differences at a simple glance cause I am Italian.

@tanishjain9190 6 жыл бұрын

Any idea nat Geo how can I join you,I am an aspiring archeologist

@forceev6695 6 жыл бұрын

Its all about ancient Places.

@63872639 6 жыл бұрын

So could you tell us about the diet and living condition of the people who used to love there?

@space.0g293 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing...

@space.0g293 6 жыл бұрын

Corey Messick but i really like to live their its adventure

@surajman6045 6 жыл бұрын

Providing a narration would be better I guess

@AngryKittens 6 жыл бұрын

All that and you never even showed New Roghudi.

@ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali 6 жыл бұрын

It looks like volcano lava that is flowing in the valley bed and not a water.

@RoamingDesertDweller 6 жыл бұрын

but where did the water go

@yourplay7369 6 жыл бұрын

Can you narrate it next time? Please don't make us read while looking at the video.

@LeoPuspito 6 жыл бұрын

Is that a mud river?

@rexmundi3108 6 жыл бұрын

How can a village be a ghost town?

@NatGeo 6 жыл бұрын

Good question, Rex! When it comes to Roghudi Vecchio, it was abandoned after a flood left the area uninhabitable. To learn more, read on: on.natgeo.com/2rxCy13

@LondonPower 5 жыл бұрын

I visit magna Grecia and I love it I think with Sicily is the most cool place in Europe

@kellykurt8339 6 жыл бұрын

That'll happen.

@lakshmiprasannagorantla5457 5 жыл бұрын

Pls upload great icon

@ho2cultcha 6 жыл бұрын

so what did people do to thrive there? grow grapes on terraces or what? it's such a beautiful place! i'd love to move there with all my friends and family, but it does look like a tough place to garden and farm! Immigration is a beautiful thing! Emigration can be heartbreaking though.

@TheAnarchistBeekeeper 6 жыл бұрын

That region is famous for its Olive and Orange trees coltivations, it's also a perfect land for farming goats. It is also close to the sea, Calabria has one of the most beautiful beaches of Italy with crystal clear waters.

@mariadaluzmoutinho5701 6 жыл бұрын

A revolução industrial tem o seu contributo não tem?? Desertificação das vilas, aldeias no interior em contraponto com o excesso de pessoas no litoral ...migração e emigração... Há pessoas a comprarem ilhas, terras desertas... isto torna-se já um apanágio!!

@MilesBellas 2 жыл бұрын

Shiey just visited ?!

@Miraan 2 жыл бұрын

Lol yes

@nuwandeemal5529 6 жыл бұрын

Before 2k

@coronavirus9214 4 жыл бұрын

Who’s here because of online classes 😷

@bhushanrocks412 3 жыл бұрын

Why Italian town are on hill

@LondonPower 5 жыл бұрын

People went to the mountains when Byzantium lost the supremacy in medditeraneo sea and the Arabs start looting the city's around the coast all over Italy Greece and Anatolia ..all this happened at the 7-8 century ...anyway at 1980s people start leaving their villages and the return to sea coast ,or emigrate to the north Italy and Europe...of course many of them went to America's USA and Argentina

@tyynymyy7770 6 жыл бұрын

Looks like Afghanistan

@space.0g293 6 жыл бұрын

But their is no ghost

@space.0g293 6 жыл бұрын

Corey Messick 😂😂😂😂

@deadpiratetattoo2015 3 жыл бұрын

im on youtube to watch, not read.

@Soggy1 6 жыл бұрын

This is a Greek or Arberesh village ??

@ettoremorabito860 4 жыл бұрын

Greek. Arabeshe villages are in upper Calabria region.Cosenza areas.

@akj3344 6 жыл бұрын

Some centuries later, earth will be a ghost planet.

@adityajain3086 6 жыл бұрын

Is that in godfather

@TheAnarchistBeekeeper 6 жыл бұрын

Aditya Jain No but in southern Italy/Sicily there are hundreds of little villages like that, the one in godfather was corleone.

@virginoyster 6 жыл бұрын

Omg first i want a heart

@cosmomari4669 3 жыл бұрын

lets colonize it lol

@leehan-yeol7049 6 жыл бұрын

Where are the ghosts? Clickbait.

@Aku6Soku1Zan 6 жыл бұрын

So that's why Italians are darker.

@TheAnarchistBeekeeper 6 жыл бұрын

Aku6Soku1Zan Because of what?

@claudiamarianidamato9499 5 жыл бұрын

Why?

@virginoyster 6 жыл бұрын

Did it just said "IONIA"?! Lol gamers alert !!

@russell_O.S. 6 жыл бұрын

Send the “refugees” here

@sarahredwood537 6 жыл бұрын

First🐖🏇😳🤕😡🍌

@PantsB4Squares 6 жыл бұрын

You hurt your head? Commenting pointless "first" when no one cares? Hope you feel accomplished. Just stop ✋

@fto2x 6 жыл бұрын

First

@PantsB4Squares 6 жыл бұрын

SwagBoiDaVeon stop

@sarahredwood537 6 жыл бұрын

SwagBoiDaVeon good stuff 🤗💰🤔🤖

@fto2x 6 жыл бұрын

You Tube lol

@fto2x 6 жыл бұрын

PantsB4Squares I somehow can’t

@PantsB4Squares 6 жыл бұрын

SwagBoiDaVeon you'll grow up. Just give it some effort

@MrBenji0 6 жыл бұрын

Unlike today, the immigrants back then were actually productive and made a honorable name for themselves. lol

@HeresVivian 6 жыл бұрын

But MOM!!! Because back then there weren’t unnecessary bureaucracy to prevent immigrants from working and making an impact. People just minded their own business and were happy for others inc. immigrants to prosper.

@tanyajuli4145 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but in the case of the greeks, they beat the original peoples back then settled this area by force. Several of the towns were settled by mamertine greek soldiers who came, saw, conquered, pillaged and plowed. Hence the greek still being spoken in the area and even moreso over on the ionian coast.

@user-mu8ij6ci2r 6 жыл бұрын

Todays immigrants do triple of you do, i can bet on that.

@TheGamblermusic 6 жыл бұрын

there were no overpopulation, and unemployment didn't exist

@MrBenji0 6 жыл бұрын

Overpopulation is not true at the moment; you are thinking over-crowding. Also, immigrants today have explicitly demonstrated their opportunism to live in high-grossing cities.