Rome — Calling yourself “the Dying Town” may not sound like the best way of attracting visitors, but Civita di Bagnoregio has learnt to make a living out of dying.
The hilltop town has resisted definitive death for so long that Italy has nominated it and the surrounding area of stark cliffs and valleys known as “badlands” to be a Unesco World Heritage site...
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