Ferdinando Cotugno

Ferdinando Cotugno, a Milan-based journalist, wites for GQ, Vanity Fair, Domani and L'Essenziale.

Left, the 19th-century Church of Santa Lucia, in Longiaru, in northern Italy. Right, the largely abandoned southern village of Pentedattilo.

How Italy Is Bringing Its Rustic Villages Back to Life

Take a photographic tour through the country's effort to revitalize its rural towns

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