Monteruga The ghost village- Since the eighties leaps to the n...
Monteruga The ghost village- Since the eighties leaps to the news only because it has become a symbol of abandonment. Among the scrubland of the countryside of San Pancrazio, Salice and Veglie, in the heart of Salento is Monteruga, a small village born in the Fascist era that for over thirty years no longer counts inhabitants. The history of Monteruga is that of a village born around the fifties thanks to a farm. Less than a thousand inhabitants and essential services: the school, the barracks, the church, the mills, an integral part of an agglomeration of the fascist regime that died after the privatization of the farm, today became the emblem of desolation. Today Monteruga is visited only by the curious who want to find out if this place really exists. A ghost town victim of decay and neglect, in which all those places once filled with faces and voices have been forgotten. The structures are crumbling, many buildings no longer have doors and windows, Monteruga is a ghostly place. After the privatization of agricultural land that gave the livelihood to the local community and the urbanization of large centers, the inhabitants of the Salento country have left their homes. A slow but inexorable end: Monteruga has even been ignored by the administration that has not been able to see its potential by transforming it into a village of widespread hospitality. Today visitors are there but tourism is that of abandonment. Cit. Dominella Trunfio
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