Viterbo: Sant'Angelo di Roccalvecce, a living fairy tale village hanging up between reality and magic

May 31, 2021 842

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? - Lewis Carroll

In the enchanting, fairytale village of S. Angelo di Roccalvecce, a small, remote hamlet in the province of Viterbo, about an hour and a half from Rome, time seems to have stopped and crystallized in the atmosphere of a fairytale.

And this is by no means a figure of speech, here in this small village fairy tales have contributed to the realization of a real miracle, namely that of saving S. Angelo di Roccalvecce from abandonment and decay. The village with just 100 inhabitants, all elderly, is isolated and poorly connected to the rest of the territory of Tuscia (the North area of Viterbo). So it was literally destined to become a "ghost town".

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SOURCE: https://www.visititaly.eu/

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