Italy

Ivo Lucon

While visiting the Veneland amusement park in Morocco, an old church across the street catches our eye. “Wow, I wish it were abandoned”, this is what I immediately thought. And it was.

April 5, 2017
Room for free in the best hotel in Padua

Furnished bedrooms with bathrooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and a tennis court. This is what is awaits you at the hotel “La Padovanelle”, which used to be one of the best hotels in the city and now stands abandoned.

March 31, 2017
Welcome to Veneland!

What do you know about one of Italy’s most glamorous regions – Veneto? Maybe you know about Venice and San Marco square, maybe you have heard about the romantic city of Verona, if you like skiing, you could hear about the Dolomites…. But what is hidden behind this mask? Maybe tons of abandoned buildings?

March 31, 2017
Is there enough alcohol here?

There were rumours that the best Italian alcohol was produced here.

March 31, 2017
Strecht the threads of the time

The red brick chimney still stands at the centre of everything, waiting.

March 26, 2017
Hansel and Gretel: continuation of a story

On the edge of the road leading out of Villa Estense — a small agricultural comune in the Bassa Padovana, the flat southern strip of the Province of Padua wedged between the Euganean Hills and the river Adige — there is a two-storey house that barely announces itself. Creepers have swallowed much of the façade. […]

January 14, 2017
Villa Ca’ Barbaro — 16th Century Renaissance Villa

The villa sits deep in the countryside on the slopes of what was once Monte Buso, now largely destroyed by quarrying and replaced by Lago Azzurro. Villa Ca’ Barbaro is a Renaissance building from the 16th century, located in the municipality of Baone, at the southern edge of the Euganei Hills. In 2016, when I […]

December 19, 2016