{"id":10077,"date":"2026-03-03T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:08:28","slug":"sicily-sold-homes-for-one-euro-this-is-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/sicily-sold-homes-for-one-euro-this-is-what-happened-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicily sold homes for one Euro. This is what happened next."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AFAR<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Like any small town that isn\u2019t yours, Sambuca di Sicilia, located about an hour\u2019s drive south of the Sicilian capital, Palermo, feels a little intimidating at first. Stroll its perimeter on a late afternoon in winter, when the sun sets the buildings alight, and eyes follow you.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/90.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10095\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afar.com\/magazine\/sicily-sold-homes-for-one-euro-what-happened-to-them?link_source=ta_first_comment&amp;taid=69a57c7d03d30100010ce903&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a decade, Sicily has been trying to revive its villages by selling vacant houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":10095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/90.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions\/10097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}