Torino: villaggio all'asta su Ebay. I cittadini: "Se vengono i marocchini è meglio demolire tutto"

Calsazio is a small Alpine village at the foot of the Gran Paradiso, 40 minutes from Turin. Like many mountain villages, it is slowly disappearing. Young people are migrating to the city, and the houses are left abandoned and neglected. So UNCEM, the National Union of Mountain Communities, decided to sponsor the village's sale on eBay. All it took was for the Independent to pick up the story on its homepage, and now Calsazio is the talk of the town: five or six families in total and about twenty homes, mostly ruins. "The entire village isn't for sale," the few remaining residents assure us. "I'm not selling my house." Not everyone, in fact, liked the news, even though it has a positive intent. Whoever buys the 14 homes (that is, almost the entire village) will also have to restore them. "It's not about selling off the land," the administration of Sparone, the municipality to which Calsazio belongs, assures us. "The initiative is private," Deputy Mayor Laura Nugai explains. "We learned about it from the newspapers." The private individual is believed to be a local teacher, Marisa Calcio, who, however, remained completely silent when she learned of the arrival of the cameras. "I've already said everything I had to say," she emphasized over the phone. Whether the venture succeeds, however, remains to be seen. The sale closes in two days, but for now, it's just a great advertisement for a mountain left to its own devices, which, perhaps, according to the residents, wanted to remain that way. http://youmedia.fanpage.it/video/aa/U...