Adventurous travellers can make their way through the beautiful ruins of an abandoned ghost town which has a 1,300 year history. Visit Craco on the heel of Italy today and you will find the tumbled down remains of what was clearly a glorious city.
Buildings made of brown bricks stack up the side of the hillside, creating small town squares on the roof tops and many vantage points to take in the stunning views of the countryside beyond. In its heyday in the 12th and 13th centuries Craco was home to about 2,500 inhabitants - enough to warrant four beautiful palazzi and a university.
