Valley View Civita di Bagnoregio Italy Canvas Print

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High above the fog-shrouded valley below I pondered the strange town called Civita di Bagnoregio, near Rome and Orvieto Italy. Civita di Bagnoregio sits atop a small plateau of friable volcanic tuff (volcanic rock over a bed of soft clay and sand) overlooking two river valleys. Although it was founded over 2500 years ago, Civita di Bagnoregio has been crumbling ever since due to earthquakes, rain, river erosion, and landslides causing the edges of the plateau (along with any buildings) to collapse and crumble into the valley below. Don’t think I wasn’t thinking of that as I stood on a patio on the edge of the cliff! It became known as The Dying Town with a permanent population somewhere around 10. The town was placed on the World Monuments Fund's 2006 Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites and in 2017 was included in a tentative list of new UNESCO World Heritage sites. A fee of 3 euro per person to enter the town is helping to fund preservation efforts.

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Protected with PIXSY About Joan Carroll: I am a Fort Worth Texas-based outdoor photographer who feels at home while on the road...in Texas, in the US, around the world. Although travel and photography were dual interests from a young age, the coming of the digital camera provided undreamed of opportunities and unleashed previously untapped creativity. My photographic goal is to travel the world in a curious yet respectful way, taking the time to see and understand the unique story of each place I visit. Wherever I go I want to walk every street, hike every trail, ride the bus or metro, climb every tower, walk around and through every monument, and then do it all over again when the light changes. In every place, light, mood, color, and...