8/25/2010

Craco, The Fascinates Dead City on The Middle Ages

Craco situated and the province of Matera, Basilicata region about 25 miles from the Gulf of Taranto. This mid-city area that has typically filled with undulating hills and the expanse of wheat farming and other agricultural crops. In the year 1060 when the ownership of land is owned by the bishop Craco diocesan leader Arnaldo Tricarico. Longstanding relationship with the church brought a lot of influence to the whole population. In the year 1891 Craco population of more than 2000 people, then they hit a lot of social problems and poverty that many of them desperate, between the years 1892 and 1922 about 1,300 people moved into North America. Poor agricultural conditions coupled with natural disasters of earthquakes, landslides, and this is a war that caused them to migrate en masse. Between 1959 and 1972 Craco again earthquakes and landslides. In 1963 the remaining population of around 1300 people eventually moved to a valley near Craco Peschiera, and until now Craco the original is still lagging behind in a state of ruin and decay leaving remnants of its population. Read More

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