29/05/2017
If you’re anything like us, films like Breaking Away and Under the Tuscan Sun are what travel dreams are made of. But did you ever think that you could fulfill your cycling and villa remodeling fantasies in one fell swoop? Now, thanks to the Italian government, you actually can.
A new program, dubbed Cammini e Percorsi, which roughly translates to “paths and routes,” will allow people to apply to receive a historic castle or villa that has fallen into a state of disrepair.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/news/italy-giving-away-100-castles-villas-monasteries-free/
Many of the properties are situated along historic pilgrimage routes which the government wants to promote, just as Spain attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists along the famous Way of St James