A country on the cliff
Could Italy simply fade away? What 'The Dying City' can teach an aging nation
That Civita di Bagnoregio ranks high among Italy’s most beautiful villages may be the least surprising thing about it.
The ancient town clings stubbornly to colorful cliffsides of layered volcanic tuff and sandstone and is connected to the rest of the world by a single umbilical cord of a footbridge. It looks like a mirage, a floating ochre-colored cita…


