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Buying a $1 Italy dream house just got even easier
Silvia Marchetti, CNN • Updated 19th April 2019
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(CNN) — What's stopping you from buying one of those homes that Italy keeps selling for less than the price of an espresso?
Maybe it's the fear of buying something sight-unseen, or perhaps it's the anxiety over bureaucratic red tape and labyrinthine regulations?
Well, you might just have run out of excuses.
Two Italian destinations, hoping to revive declining communities by luring new residents with homes priced at a little over a dollar, have launched websites that promise to match buyers with their dream property, relatively fuss-free.
So if you spot a photo of a house you like online, you can apply for one even before jumping on a plane.
"I've created a special task force of young volunteers who assist buyers, liaising with convenient construction firms for the restyle," says Paolo Caruso, mayor of Zungoli, one of the villages offering bargain-rate houses.
"Transparency is key but people must really come see for themselves the beauty of the place, taste the great food and breathe the fresh healthy air."
Zungoli is a tiny rural village, shaped like a snail, in the Campania region near Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
1/18
Bargain-rate houses: Two new towns in Italy are offering homes for sale at bargain rates. Click through the gallery to see images of what's on offer. This is Mussomeli, in Sicily, which is offering places for €1.
Salvatore Catalano, Comune Mussolemi
Cheese grottoes
Set atop a sandstone hill, it's a maze of caves and zig-zag, circular alleys connected by huge, uneven grass-covered cobblestone steps that wind up to a stunning fortress.
Named one of Italy's Most Beautiful Villages in 2015 in a national award, it straddles the Apennine Mountains, equidistant from the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian coasts.
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Italian town of Sambuca in Sicily sells homes for a dollar
Medieval bridges lead to a cluster of blue, pink, green and yellow pastel-colored farm dwellings and dome-shaped aristocratic mansions where just 1,000 people live. Bright flowers adorn street corners and grapevines grow over arches and old olive mills.
Inside multi-layered Byzantine caves once used as storage rooms during the Crusades, teardrop-shaped Caciocavallo cheeses are now hung to season.
Sounds good? Well here's how you get a slice of the action... and maybe some of that cheese.
Step uno: Head to Zungoli's official website -- www.comunezungoli.it. On the left column, there's a link titled "Case in vendita a €1."
You might need Google Translate to help you out at this point, or some rudimentary knowledge of Italian (which would be no bad thing anyway if you're thinking of living there.)
Step due: Click on the link and you'll see dozens of 50- to 100-square-meter dwellings listed. They're all in need of some TLC, so you'll need some imagination.
Step tre: Download the application form for the property you like. At this point you commit to renovating one within three years and must explain the type of project -- be it a private house, B&B or artisan shop.
Step quattro: Attach a copy of your ID and forward everything to the mayor's office by email or mail.
Step cinque: If your plan is approved, Caruso will send you a contract and then it's up to you to fly over to Italy and close the deal.
The catch: As with all these cheap home deals, buyers must pay a €2,000 security deposit and commit to refurbishing the property.
Work needs to start within a few months. Once it's complete and the purchase deed is made, the deposit is refunded.
There are tax deductions of up to 85% for any restyling works.
Rustic attractions
Zungoli has a unique setting and a lot to offer -- guided trekking and cycling tours regularly explore the wild and pristine landscape.
Once plagued by bandits and criss-crossed by pilgrimage routes and shepherd trails, known as tratturi, the terrain is dotted with Roman coins often filled with ancient coins.
For 6,000 years, nomadic shepherds led their herds across its pastures into neighboring Puglia, a tradition now celebrated in festivals and in rustic local dishes like chiapparelle e bietole -- ravioli stuffed with chard.
But it's not stuck in the past.
"We want to make things easy for new buyers", says Caruso. "My town has upgraded infrastructure, public LED lights and great Wi-Fi. Piazzas and pavements have just been revamped. Life quality is important."
Honey paradise
If even that process sounds too complicated, the larger Italian town of Mussomeli, in Sicily, has made it even easier, creating a new multilingual real estate agency to handle its €1 houses deals.
Photos of dwellings can be checked via the website www.case1euro.it, which features an interactive map that has detailed information on each building -- and it's all in English.
Many of the abandoned stone farm dwellings are in good shape and need only minimal work.
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Cash for babies, $10,000 gifts, $1 homes: The battle for the soul of rural Italy
"Original owners calls us each day to dispose of their old houses," says heritage councillor Toti Nigrelli. "There are 100 on sale now and potentially another 400 are suitable.
"This project is my life mission but had I dealt with it on my own, I would have gone nuts."
Honeysuckle and eucalyptus are found across this sweet patch of land. Mussomeli's name stems from the latin Mons Melis, aka the "Hill of Honey," and local delicacies include honey-coated guastedde buns and cuddureddi fried milk-soaked doughnuts.
'Sea of clouds'
The fertile green farmland is dotted with old sulfur mines, sanctuaries, Roman necropolises and traces of primitive settlements.
The town, rising on a 700-meter high hill, has views of the Etna volcano and the Valley of Temples. A local weather phenomenon called the "Sea of Clouds" can be seen from the top.
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"Looking down you see the valley covered in a dense blanket of clouds as if the town were suspended mid-air. We want customers to experience all this," says Nigrelli.
The historic center is divided into districts all of which, he swears, have different climatic features depending on which side of the hill you stand.
Sounds like the ideal place?
Step uno: Email the agency with a list of houses you like and download the documentation, following the instructions. It's all pretty straightforward.
Step due: You still need to fly over to see exactly what you're getting, especially since the purchase cannot be done by email or telephone. So you need to fix an appointment and a tour of the houses.
Step tre: The local agents will arrange a meeting with the notary and draw up an agreement under which you must commit to refurbishment within three years or forfeit a €5,000 security deposit.
Interested buyers will be given a guided tour of the town, visiting top sites and tasting the local cuisine. The agency's staff will assist every step of the way.
The catch: "There's a €400 fee for such tailored services to be paid only at the end if a €1 house is actually purchased," says Nigrelli.
Mystical vibe
Anyone taking the private tour will see Mussomeli's panoramic piazzas, lavish gold-colored Baroque buildings and winding alleys leading to one of Italy's most breathtaking fortresses, dubbed the Enchanted Castle.
Clinging like a spider on a pointed rock with steep, twisting staircases, the castle is said to conceal Saracen treasure and is haunted by the ghost of a murdered soldier.
It's not the only eerie presence.
Related content
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The phantoms of three girls, who were locked up by their jealous and tyrannical father and starved to death, have been heard crying at night. According to storytellers, they were found dead having chewed their own shoes for sustenance.
Actors dressed in medieval clothes often animate the castle while religious parades create a mystical vibe.
One festival, Batticchié, sees folks re-enact Sicilian daily life from the 1940s while enjoying local dishes such as 'mbriulate -- a bread bun stuffed with olives, onions and pork.
Delicious. And not just the food.
https://www.italianfix.com/italy-giving-away-houses/
1 Euro Houses in Italy (Italy is Giving Away Houses)
by Bianca @ Italian Fix
Read in 4 minutes
Have you heard about the 1 euro houses in Italy?
Well, it’s true.
Italy is giving away houses.
You can buy a house in Italy right now for 1 euro.
And…
I’m going to tell you how to score one.
Why is Italy giving away houses for 1 euro?
You’ve probably seen the headlines about the hundreds of homes being flogged for pennies in Italy recently. They were even unloading castles last year for practically nothing!
Sounds too good to be true, right? Some fake news making the rounds?
Whether it’s too good to be true is something I’ll get into in a minute, but fake? Nope. This is a hundred percent actually happening.
So the big question is: WHY?
Houses in Italy for $1
The main reason is Italy’s rapidly shrinking native population. Italians used to have more kids, but now they have the lowest birthrate in Europe. That means people are inheriting “extra” houses from Auntie Gina and Grandpa Roberto that once would have gone to siblings or cousins. Or the elderly are finding themselves with no one to leave their houses to. Their kids don’t want them — they’ve already moved to bigger cities with better opportunities.
Owning houses means paying taxes, and so liquidating surplus homes can be a huge financial load off. Often these “extra” houses are donated to city hall, and many municipalities have had to get creative about what to do with them.
Mayors already scrambling to backfill their dwindling populations have come up with an innovative way of killing two birds with one stone — sell the houses for super cheap to anyone who is willing to commit to restoring them, with the long term goal of bringing life and tourism back to these areas.
The trend started a decade ago when the mayor of Salemi, a small town in Sicily, came up with the idea of selling homes that had lain in ruin since a 1968 earthquake to anyone who would agree to renovate them for just one euro. For reasons ranging from the buildings not being earthquake-safe to the homes being repossessed because of mafia infiltration, the Salemi project was ultimately a failure. But it inspired other communities to create similar initiatives that have been quite successful — nearby Gangi received 1000 applications and had sold 100 houses by 2016.
Of course the international media — including CNN and Travel + Leisure — has been all over this news. After all, owning a vacation property in Italy would be a dream come true for a lot of us!
So how does it all work?
How can I buy a house in Italy for 1 euro?
You’ll need to fill out an application to buy a house in Italy. Applications can be found on individual municipalities’ websites.
A list of the towns currently participating in this initiative can be found here. The applications and all of the info are, of course, in Italian, but you can do some preliminary browsing by googling some of the areas taking part, like Patrica near Rome, Lecce di Marsi in the Abruzzo region, and the Tuscan towns of Fabbriche di Vergemoli and Montieri.
The latest Italian town to give away houses is called Ollolai on the amazing island of Sardinia — it’s about an hour away from this stunning beach I visited last summer. Also in the last few days, the town of Sambuca in Sicily announced it’s deal and the mayor has been shocked by the response, his offer has gone viral and they’ve been inundated with requests.
The recent success that towns like Ollolai have had (120 requests by late 2017 from all over the world) have spurred other villages around the boot to start their own 1-euro projects, so it’s worth checking the Case a 1 Euro website often to read up on the ultime notizie (latest news).
So what’s the catch?
When I received the third text in a row from a client asking for advice on how to get in on the deal, I knew I needed to outline some realistic expectations for anyone actually thinking of doing this.
We’re a team of Italy experts who either own property in Italy or live and work there full time, so we’re not only able to read the Italian fine print, but we’ve experienced Italian bureaucracy, permissions and wait times first hand.
While it wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say this offer is too good to be true (it is a pretty sweet incentive!), to suggest that all it will take is some reno money and it’ll all be easy peasy is just not true either.
It’s a bit like buying a horse. The actual animal might be relatively cheap. It’s the vet, hay and barn that can do a number on your finances!
(Not that that deterred me from begging my mother for a horse for six straight years, but that’s another story.)
These are the hard facts many news outlets are leaving out:
You’d better be insanely good at bricklaying, painting and roof installation.
And managing a general contractor in another language.
And have many months to do only that.
And be able to tackle Italian red tape (which is so long and sticky it would make your head spin around a Tuscan hillside).
And have alligator-style thick skin.
When I was telling my husband about this initiative, he immediately pictured some poor foreign souls at the whim of the Italian tradesman, engineers and surveyors he knows. He shook his head and muttered something eloquent like, “Ahhh ha ha e farsi inchiappettare” — the Italian translation of which involves rear ends and getting shafted and… you get the picture.
https://www.case1euro.it/
Monday - Friday 9:00 - 13:00
(+39) 351 2571078 Mobile phone
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Mussomeli is a town of 11.000 people, located in the heart of Sicily. Mussomeli is located in an inner hilly area, east of the Platani River, in Central Sicily, at 765 meters above sea level. It is 53 km from Agrigento, 58 km from Caltanissetta, 150 km from Catania Airport. The weather is rather continental, rigid and dry in winter, warm and windy in the summer. The wind is a climatic element of the city. There are few snow-covered episodes in winter. The rains are concentrated in the months of January, February, March, April, October and December, almost completely absent in the summer. The temperature varies a lot: the winter maximum is 7-11 °C, while summer temperatures are 26-32 °C (with tips of 35 °C and above); The minimum temperatures range from 3-6 °C winter to 15-20 °C summer. Mussomeli is one of the safest cities in Italy. There have been no robbery from years, thanks to a sophisticated video surveillance system and the presence of numerous police forces who control the town.
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Buying a $1 Italy dream house just got even easier
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(CNN) — What's stopping you from buying one of those homes that Italy keeps selling for less than the price of an espresso?
Maybe it's the fear of buying something sight-unseen, or perhaps it's the anxiety over bureaucratic red tape and labyrinthine regulations?
Well, you might just have run out of excuses.
Two Italian destinations, hoping to revive declining communities by luring new residents with homes priced at a little over a dollar, have launched websites that promise to match buyers with their dream property, relatively fuss-free.
So if you spot a photo of a house you like online, you can apply for one even before jumping on a plane.
"I've created a special task force of young volunteers who assist buyers, liaising with convenient construction firms for the restyle," says Paolo Caruso, mayor of Zungoli, one of the villages offering bargain-rate houses.
"Transparency is key but people must really come see for themselves the beauty of the place, taste the great food and breathe the fresh healthy air."
Zungoli is a tiny rural village, shaped like a snail, in the Campania region near Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
1/18
Bargain-rate houses: Two new towns in Italy are offering homes for sale at bargain rates. Click through the gallery to see images of what's on offer. This is Mussomeli, in Sicily, which is offering places for €1.
Salvatore Catalano, Comune Mussolemi
Cheese grottoes
Set atop a sandstone hill, it's a maze of caves and zig-zag, circular alleys connected by huge, uneven grass-covered cobblestone steps that wind up to a stunning fortress.
Named one of Italy's Most Beautiful Villages in 2015 in a national award, it straddles the Apennine Mountains, equidistant from the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian coasts.
Related content
Italian town of Sambuca in Sicily sells homes for a dollar
Medieval bridges lead to a cluster of blue, pink, green and yellow pastel-colored farm dwellings and dome-shaped aristocratic mansions where just 1,000 people live. Bright flowers adorn street corners and grapevines grow over arches and old olive mills.
Inside multi-layered Byzantine caves once used as storage rooms during the Crusades, teardrop-shaped Caciocavallo cheeses are now hung to season.
Sounds good? Well here's how you get a slice of the action... and maybe some of that cheese.
Step uno: Head to Zungoli's official website -- www.comunezungoli.it. On the left column, there's a link titled "Case in vendita a €1."
You might need Google Translate to help you out at this point, or some rudimentary knowledge of Italian (which would be no bad thing anyway if you're thinking of living there.)
Step due: Click on the link and you'll see dozens of 50- to 100-square-meter dwellings listed. They're all in need of some TLC, so you'll need some imagination.
Step tre: Download the application form for the property you like. At this point you commit to renovating one within three years and must explain the type of project -- be it a private house, B&B or artisan shop.
Step quattro: Attach a copy of your ID and forward everything to the mayor's office by email or mail.
Step cinque: If your plan is approved, Caruso will send you a contract and then it's up to you to fly over to Italy and close the deal.
The catch: As with all these cheap home deals, buyers must pay a €2,000 security deposit and commit to refurbishing the property.
Work needs to start within a few months. Once it's complete and the purchase deed is made, the deposit is refunded.
There are tax deductions of up to 85% for any restyling works.
Rustic attractions
Zungoli has a unique setting and a lot to offer -- guided trekking and cycling tours regularly explore the wild and pristine landscape.
Once plagued by bandits and criss-crossed by pilgrimage routes and shepherd trails, known as tratturi, the terrain is dotted with Roman coins often filled with ancient coins.
For 6,000 years, nomadic shepherds led their herds across its pastures into neighboring Puglia, a tradition now celebrated in festivals and in rustic local dishes like chiapparelle e bietole -- ravioli stuffed with chard.
But it's not stuck in the past.
"We want to make things easy for new buyers", says Caruso. "My town has upgraded infrastructure, public LED lights and great Wi-Fi. Piazzas and pavements have just been revamped. Life quality is important."
Honey paradise
If even that process sounds too complicated, the larger Italian town of Mussomeli, in Sicily, has made it even easier, creating a new multilingual real estate agency to handle its €1 houses deals.
Photos of dwellings can be checked via the website www.case1euro.it, which features an interactive map that has detailed information on each building -- and it's all in English.
Many of the abandoned stone farm dwellings are in good shape and need only minimal work.
Related content
Cash for babies, $10,000 gifts, $1 homes: The battle for the soul of rural Italy
"Original owners calls us each day to dispose of their old houses," says heritage councillor Toti Nigrelli. "There are 100 on sale now and potentially another 400 are suitable.
"This project is my life mission but had I dealt with it on my own, I would have gone nuts."
Honeysuckle and eucalyptus are found across this sweet patch of land. Mussomeli's name stems from the latin Mons Melis, aka the "Hill of Honey," and local delicacies include honey-coated guastedde buns and cuddureddi fried milk-soaked doughnuts.
'Sea of clouds'
The fertile green farmland is dotted with old sulfur mines, sanctuaries, Roman necropolises and traces of primitive settlements.
The town, rising on a 700-meter high hill, has views of the Etna volcano and the Valley of Temples. A local weather phenomenon called the "Sea of Clouds" can be seen from the top.
Related content
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"Looking down you see the valley covered in a dense blanket of clouds as if the town were suspended mid-air. We want customers to experience all this," says Nigrelli.
The historic center is divided into districts all of which, he swears, have different climatic features depending on which side of the hill you stand.
Sounds like the ideal place?
Step uno: Email the agency with a list of houses you like and download the documentation, following the instructions. It's all pretty straightforward.
Step due: You still need to fly over to see exactly what you're getting, especially since the purchase cannot be done by email or telephone. So you need to fix an appointment and a tour of the houses.
Step tre: The local agents will arrange a meeting with the notary and draw up an agreement under which you must commit to refurbishment within three years or forfeit a €5,000 security deposit.
Interested buyers will be given a guided tour of the town, visiting top sites and tasting the local cuisine. The agency's staff will assist every step of the way.
The catch: "There's a €400 fee for such tailored services to be paid only at the end if a €1 house is actually purchased," says Nigrelli.
Mystical vibe
Anyone taking the private tour will see Mussomeli's panoramic piazzas, lavish gold-colored Baroque buildings and winding alleys leading to one of Italy's most breathtaking fortresses, dubbed the Enchanted Castle.
Clinging like a spider on a pointed rock with steep, twisting staircases, the castle is said to conceal Saracen treasure and is haunted by the ghost of a murdered soldier.
It's not the only eerie presence.
Related content
33 of the most beautiful places to visit in Italy
The phantoms of three girls, who were locked up by their jealous and tyrannical father and starved to death, have been heard crying at night. According to storytellers, they were found dead having chewed their own shoes for sustenance.
Actors dressed in medieval clothes often animate the castle while religious parades create a mystical vibe.
One festival, Batticchié, sees folks re-enact Sicilian daily life from the 1940s while enjoying local dishes such as 'mbriulate -- a bread bun stuffed with olives, onions and pork.
Delicious. And not just the food.
https://www.italianfix.com/italy-giving-away-houses/
1 Euro Houses in Italy (Italy is Giving Away Houses)
by Bianca @ Italian Fix
Read in 4 minutes
Have you heard about the 1 euro houses in Italy?
Well, it’s true.
Italy is giving away houses.
You can buy a house in Italy right now for 1 euro.
And…
I’m going to tell you how to score one.
Why is Italy giving away houses for 1 euro?
You’ve probably seen the headlines about the hundreds of homes being flogged for pennies in Italy recently. They were even unloading castles last year for practically nothing!
Sounds too good to be true, right? Some fake news making the rounds?
Whether it’s too good to be true is something I’ll get into in a minute, but fake? Nope. This is a hundred percent actually happening.
So the big question is: WHY?
Houses in Italy for $1
The main reason is Italy’s rapidly shrinking native population. Italians used to have more kids, but now they have the lowest birthrate in Europe. That means people are inheriting “extra” houses from Auntie Gina and Grandpa Roberto that once would have gone to siblings or cousins. Or the elderly are finding themselves with no one to leave their houses to. Their kids don’t want them — they’ve already moved to bigger cities with better opportunities.
Owning houses means paying taxes, and so liquidating surplus homes can be a huge financial load off. Often these “extra” houses are donated to city hall, and many municipalities have had to get creative about what to do with them.
Mayors already scrambling to backfill their dwindling populations have come up with an innovative way of killing two birds with one stone — sell the houses for super cheap to anyone who is willing to commit to restoring them, with the long term goal of bringing life and tourism back to these areas.
The trend started a decade ago when the mayor of Salemi, a small town in Sicily, came up with the idea of selling homes that had lain in ruin since a 1968 earthquake to anyone who would agree to renovate them for just one euro. For reasons ranging from the buildings not being earthquake-safe to the homes being repossessed because of mafia infiltration, the Salemi project was ultimately a failure. But it inspired other communities to create similar initiatives that have been quite successful — nearby Gangi received 1000 applications and had sold 100 houses by 2016.
Of course the international media — including CNN and Travel + Leisure — has been all over this news. After all, owning a vacation property in Italy would be a dream come true for a lot of us!
So how does it all work?
How can I buy a house in Italy for 1 euro?
You’ll need to fill out an application to buy a house in Italy. Applications can be found on individual municipalities’ websites.
A list of the towns currently participating in this initiative can be found here. The applications and all of the info are, of course, in Italian, but you can do some preliminary browsing by googling some of the areas taking part, like Patrica near Rome, Lecce di Marsi in the Abruzzo region, and the Tuscan towns of Fabbriche di Vergemoli and Montieri.
The latest Italian town to give away houses is called Ollolai on the amazing island of Sardinia — it’s about an hour away from this stunning beach I visited last summer. Also in the last few days, the town of Sambuca in Sicily announced it’s deal and the mayor has been shocked by the response, his offer has gone viral and they’ve been inundated with requests.
The recent success that towns like Ollolai have had (120 requests by late 2017 from all over the world) have spurred other villages around the boot to start their own 1-euro projects, so it’s worth checking the Case a 1 Euro website often to read up on the ultime notizie (latest news).
So what’s the catch?
When I received the third text in a row from a client asking for advice on how to get in on the deal, I knew I needed to outline some realistic expectations for anyone actually thinking of doing this.
We’re a team of Italy experts who either own property in Italy or live and work there full time, so we’re not only able to read the Italian fine print, but we’ve experienced Italian bureaucracy, permissions and wait times first hand.
While it wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say this offer is too good to be true (it is a pretty sweet incentive!), to suggest that all it will take is some reno money and it’ll all be easy peasy is just not true either.
It’s a bit like buying a horse. The actual animal might be relatively cheap. It’s the vet, hay and barn that can do a number on your finances!
(Not that that deterred me from begging my mother for a horse for six straight years, but that’s another story.)
These are the hard facts many news outlets are leaving out:
You’d better be insanely good at bricklaying, painting and roof installation.
And managing a general contractor in another language.
And have many months to do only that.
And be able to tackle Italian red tape (which is so long and sticky it would make your head spin around a Tuscan hillside).
And have alligator-style thick skin.
When I was telling my husband about this initiative, he immediately pictured some poor foreign souls at the whim of the Italian tradesman, engineers and surveyors he knows. He shook his head and muttered something eloquent like, “Ahhh ha ha e farsi inchiappettare” — the Italian translation of which involves rear ends and getting shafted and… you get the picture.
https://www.case1euro.it/
Monday - Friday 9:00 - 13:00
(+39) 351 2571078 Mobile phone
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Buy your home in Sicily with only 1€
Is it really possible to buy a house for € 1? Yes, and it is a project wanted by the Municipality of Mussomeli, in Sicily. Buy your dream for € 1 in the fabulous town of the Sicilian hinterland, just a few kilometers from the enchanting beaches and the historic temples of Agrigento. In Mussomeli you will live the ancient Sicily, the real Sicily. Mussomeli is the city of the Manfredi’s Castle and traditions. In Sicily you will not only buy a house, but you will have the chance to experience our culture, our traditions, the slow and relaxed life of one of the most peaceful and safe lands in the world. Already 100 people have bought a house, what are you waiting for?
The city of Mussomeli
Mussomeli is a town of 11.000 people, located in the heart of Sicily. Mussomeli is located in an inner hilly area, east of the Platani River, in Central Sicily, at 765 meters above sea level. It is 53 km from Agrigento, 58 km from Caltanissetta, 150 km from Catania Airport. The weather is rather continental, rigid and dry in winter, warm and windy in the summer. The wind is a climatic element of the city. There are few snow-covered episodes in winter. The rains are concentrated in the months of January, February, March, April, October and December, almost completely absent in the summer. The temperature varies a lot: the winter maximum is 7-11 °C, while summer temperatures are 26-32 °C (with tips of 35 °C and above); The minimum temperatures range from 3-6 °C winter to 15-20 °C summer. Mussomeli is one of the safest cities in Italy. There have been no robbery from years, thanks to a sophisticated video surveillance system and the presence of numerous police forces who control the town.
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Generale Cascino 44
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Vicilenti 7
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Lanzalaco 8
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Lanzalaco 30
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Costanzo 17
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Costanzo 15
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How does it work
This is a project owned by the Municipality of Mussomeli. The project is non-profit and was designed to repopulate the historic center of Mussomeli with people from all over the world.
Municipality of Mussomeli
Address: Piazza della Repubblica, 1
93014 Mussomeli (CL)
Italy Phone: (+39) 351 2571078
About Mussomeli
Mussomeli is a town located in the heart of Sicily. Mussomeli is located in an inner hilly area, east of the Platani River, in Central Sicily, at 765 meters above sea level. It is 53 km from Agrigento, 150km from Catania airport.
