A Tale of Two Ghost Towns: Poggioreale and Gibellina, Sicily
In January of 1968, two earthquakes, only a day apart, hit 14 towns in the Belice Valley, razing four villages to the ground. Measuring around 6.3 on the Richter scale, the tremors led to the death of 231 people in the valley, injuring more than 1,000 and leaving as many as 100,000 survivors without a […]
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