Italy’s One Euro House Dream: The renovation reality
For many people, living in a historic town in Italy seems like an unaffordable dream.
But thanks to an ambitious social experiment you can live la dolce vita in Sicily for just one euro!
This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Natalie Whiting travels to the Sicilian towns where people are arriving from all over the world to snap up abandoned houses for virtually nothing.
And their arrival is helping to solve one of Italy’s biggest problems.
The country has the oldest population in Europe with deaths now far outstripping births and huge numbers of young people are leaving for better