National Geographic, They were Albanian , not hellenic. The spoke Albanian (Arvanit) not Greek . You being 'Nation Geographic' you need to ensure that you are not changing historical facts because people look to you for education. Calabria means 'castle on a hill' in Albanian' (Kala - Castle) Bri (Horn).
This place must have been fertile previously, enough to sustain for a thousand years at least. I wonder how or what went wrong, leading to the decline of the old Roghudi. Still, looks like some place worth visiting with a mysterious, historical, and perhaps adventurous vibe. Thanks for sharing National Geographic.
It was odd that the town is only a millenia old if it was a greek town given that the Greeks colonized between 5th Cent B.C. and 2nd Cent BC. If this WAS founded by the greek colonists, then its over 2000 y.o. To answer your question Azliana, earthquakes are prone in the region, and at least one EQ hit the region in the 1700s that demolished many villages and cathedrals. I was an archeo working in one of the buried Mamertine towns (greek mercenary settlements) and we uncovered a lot of stuff from those earthquakes. In addition, they mention flooding in the video and you can see how precarious the cliffside dwellings are perched up on the narrow islet. Its a great defensive position but bad if flooding undercuts the hillside and you have the risk of EQs and cant get to your pastures from the flooding.
This is pretty cool. My wife is from a place much like this called Apice in Benevento, Italy. They they did the same for the inhabitants in the 60s they relocated everyone to Nuevo Apice.
Looks like a very old (Ancient?) dry river-bed at the bottom of the valley. It would be interesting to go there with a metal detector and see what one could dig up.
It is a fiumara, a season depending torrent/river. Usually these are dry in Summer and become real rivers in Winter. If it occurs a storm upper the mountains, even in Summer hot season, such a river could became very dangerous as in US or Mexico canyon floods.
It's rocks of the bottom of the river showing because since it's summer, the river is now only s tiny little stream: it's pretty usual in Italy to have little to no rain in summer so rivers get ridiculously dry... Only the Alpine-sourced rivers stay quite big thanks to the melting of ice. So Italy dries up during summer and suddenly, in fall, it starts to rain a lot. Too much, actually, for the dried steeped lands of the Italian peninsula hence the floods that cause disasters each year and take too much time to the municipalities to repair some times so cities end up with entires areas enclosed for safety that never get fixed or that are abusively rebuilt or that stay in an in between due to lack of fundings... Next to my house, the main street was blocked by the fall of a rock due to a flood. It took a year to be removed forcing all the habitants of our village to do a 12 km detour to get to the main city which we are entirely dependent because there is no shop or post office or anything in our village except two functioning churches
Sara Richero Oh my God, my compassion to you. 12km!!! That's quite a resilience challenge.. Interesting. Also thanks for the explanations about the "cement" look of the river. I wondered too.
Fitzgerald Mistral The buildings per se not but the town could have that history. Barcelona was a roman town once and all what's left of that is underground.
Nobody said the buildings were ancient (they were probably built around 100/150 years ago), what they said is that the village was continuously inhabited for thousands of years before being abandoned, the inhabitants of this village were still speaking Greek even 1.000 years after that land was latinzed: this can tell you how ancient and isolate that region is.
yes, some walls look like they were built in the 1960's or 70's, just before they had to leave... the village and its architecture are clearly much older.
Look careful and you will distinguish houses of hundred years with collapsed wooden roofs covered with tiles, the houses built upto the '50s with stone bricks but with cement roofs and more modern tiles, and the part with cement pillars, and cemented red light bricks that are common for building after '50s and still today. It seems in 1970 there had enough money to justify they were enlarging their houses but they had no enough time to put coats on the walls that are still raw. It must be houses of emigrants in the North of Italy or Germany who got back for summers in their hometown just to build a new house, or adding another room or even a new wing for their homes. At least I can spot the differences at a simple glance cause I am Italian.
People went to the mountains when Byzantium lost the supremacy in medditeraneo sea and the Arabs start looting the city's around the coast all over Italy Greece and Anatolia ..all this happened at the 7-8 century ...anyway at 1980s people start leaving their villages and the return to sea coast ,or emigrate to the north Italy and Europe...of course many of them went to America's USA and Argentina
Good question, Rex! When it comes to Roghudi Vecchio, it was abandoned after a flood left the area uninhabitable. To learn more, read on: on.natgeo.com/2rxCy13
so what did people do to thrive there? grow grapes on terraces or what? it's such a beautiful place! i'd love to move there with all my friends and family, but it does look like a tough place to garden and farm! Immigration is a beautiful thing! Emigration can be heartbreaking though.
That region is famous for its Olive and Orange trees coltivations, it's also a perfect land for farming goats. It is also close to the sea, Calabria has one of the most beautiful beaches of Italy with crystal clear waters.
A revolução industrial tem o seu contributo não tem?? Desertificação das vilas, aldeias no interior em contraponto com o excesso de pessoas no litoral ...migração e emigração... Há pessoas a comprarem ilhas, terras desertas... isto torna-se já um apanágio!!
But MOM!!! Because back then there weren’t unnecessary bureaucracy to prevent immigrants from working and making an impact. People just minded their own business and were happy for others inc. immigrants to prosper.
Sorry, but in the case of the greeks, they beat the original peoples back then settled this area by force. Several of the towns were settled by mamertine greek soldiers who came, saw, conquered, pillaged and plowed. Hence the greek still being spoken in the area and even moreso over on the ionian coast.
Overpopulation is not true at the moment; you are thinking over-crowding. Also, immigrants today have explicitly demonstrated their opportunism to live in high-grossing cities.
When a flood in 1970 left Roghudi Vecchio uninhabitable, it became a ghost town. What are your thoughts on this abandoned village?
I wish if I could live there...
Beautiful... but not meant for modern living. Could be a destination for tourism.
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National Geographic, They were Albanian , not hellenic. The spoke Albanian (Arvanit) not Greek . You being 'Nation Geographic' you need to ensure that you are not changing historical facts because people look to you for education. Calabria means 'castle on a hill' in Albanian' (Kala - Castle) Bri (Horn).
Can I get to live there?
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I love ghost towns!! Hope to visit at least one!!
A Mandal and stay for a day or two? haha JK 😊😊
It would be such a unique experience to visit ghost towns such as Roghudi Vecchio. To learn more about this village, read on: on.natgeo.com/2rxCy13
Go uttrakhand you'll find many ghost villages there
This place must have been fertile previously, enough to sustain for a thousand years at least. I wonder how or what went wrong, leading to the decline of the old Roghudi. Still, looks like some place worth visiting with a mysterious, historical, and perhaps adventurous vibe. Thanks for sharing National Geographic.
Azliana Lyana This is tipical calabrian vegetations. Many hills look like those.
there is also CRACO, an other italian ghost town
It was odd that the town is only a millenia old if it was a greek town given that the Greeks colonized between 5th Cent B.C. and 2nd Cent BC. If this WAS founded by the greek colonists, then its over 2000 y.o.
To answer your question Azliana, earthquakes are prone in the region, and at least one EQ hit the region in the 1700s that demolished many villages and cathedrals. I was an archeo working in one of the buried Mamertine towns (greek mercenary settlements) and we uncovered a lot of stuff from those earthquakes. In addition, they mention flooding in the video and you can see how precarious the cliffside dwellings are perched up on the narrow islet. Its a great defensive position but bad if flooding undercuts the hillside and you have the risk of EQs and cant get to your pastures from the flooding.
Azliana Lyana b
@Lummux tantalizing comment. Elaborate please. I lived there for years and just couldn't get enuf of the prehistory nor history.
It is a magnificent place, it is the world's precious treasure
would love to visit Italy ,wild world with beautiful stories and history
Don't. Corona outbreak. Stay safe😢
Really beautiful. And beautifully shot.
This is pretty cool. My wife is from a place much like this called Apice in Benevento, Italy. They they did the same for the inhabitants in the 60s they relocated everyone to Nuevo Apice.
Thanks for sharing your experience with another ghost town, James! To learn more about Roghudi Vecchio, read on: on.natgeo.com/2rxCy13
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That's great thanks
Looks like a very old (Ancient?) dry river-bed at the bottom of the valley. It would be interesting to go there with a metal detector and see what one could dig up.
It is a fiumara, a season depending torrent/river. Usually these are dry in Summer and become real rivers in Winter. If it occurs a storm upper the mountains, even in Summer hot season, such a river could became very dangerous as in US or Mexico canyon floods.
Lovely
I shot this :) thanks National Geographic!
Do you know where they got the music?
13xxi not really
How about you source the music in your videos?
El Nieto PR Darude-Sandstorm
Adobe Premiere Pro stock audio #3403
El Nieto PR exactly I was about to comment that enjoyed the music more than the video itself. Also, are you from PR?
Yessir, from Humacao.
El Nieto PR nice, I'm from Toa Baja, have a good night fellow countryman
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Looks like my village in algeria (north africa)
I can live here ❤For the rest of my life
Excellent video thank you. Looks like a very interesting place to visit. : )
Nice
wow so beautiful town
Awesome place
Beautiful vids amazing!
È molto bello
Just flew right by this 2 days ago. I figured there was something on UA-cam about it.
Dunno why...
But i got Uncharted feels seeing this video!
Is that a river of mud? It looks like cement.
It's rocks of the bottom of the river showing because since it's summer, the river is now only s tiny little stream: it's pretty usual in Italy to have little to no rain in summer so rivers get ridiculously dry... Only the Alpine-sourced rivers stay quite big thanks to the melting of ice.
So Italy dries up during summer and suddenly, in fall, it starts to rain a lot. Too much, actually, for the dried steeped lands of the Italian peninsula hence the floods that cause disasters each year and take too much time to the municipalities to repair some times so cities end up with entires areas enclosed for safety that never get fixed or that are abusively rebuilt or that stay in an in between due to lack of fundings...
Next to my house, the main street was blocked by the fall of a rock due to a flood. It took a year to be removed forcing all the habitants of our village to do a 12 km detour to get to the main city which we are entirely dependent because there is no shop or post office or anything in our village except two functioning churches
Sara Richero Oh my God, my compassion to you. 12km!!! That's quite a resilience challenge.. Interesting. Also thanks for the explanations about the "cement" look of the river. I wondered too.
thanks ^^ No problem ;)
i from to nepal but i love italey
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These BUILDINGS are anything BUT ancient.
Fitzgerald Mistral The buildings per se not but the town could have that history.
Barcelona was a roman town once and all what's left of that is underground.
Nobody said the buildings were ancient (they were probably built around 100/150 years ago), what they said is that the village was continuously inhabited for thousands of years before being abandoned, the inhabitants of this village were still speaking Greek even 1.000 years after that land was latinzed: this can tell you how ancient and isolate that region is.
yes, some walls look like they were built in the 1960's or 70's, just before they had to leave... the village and its architecture are clearly much older.
Look careful and you will distinguish houses of hundred years with collapsed wooden roofs covered with tiles, the houses built upto the '50s with stone bricks but with cement roofs and more modern tiles, and the part with cement pillars, and cemented red light bricks that are common for building after '50s and still today.
It seems in 1970 there had enough money to justify they were enlarging their houses but they had no enough time to put coats on the walls that are still raw.
It must be houses of emigrants in the North of Italy or Germany who got back for summers in their hometown just to build a new house, or adding another room or even a new wing for their homes.
At least I can spot the differences at a simple glance cause I am Italian.
Amazing how does people live there
How do NatGeo-caliber videos manage to get posted to UA-cam with mono audio in 2018?
Providing a narration would be better I guess
Perfect for fantasy adventure movies..
Seems like irrigating above this land made it unlivable with its water sources anyway
So could you tell us about the diet and living condition of the people who used to love there?
Can you narrate it next time? Please don't make us read while looking at the video.
As 12 casas do zodíaco (Saint Seiya)
Amazing...
Corey Messick but i really like to live their its adventure
Any idea nat Geo how can I join you,I am an aspiring archeologist
All that and you never even showed New Roghudi.
It looks like volcano lava that is flowing in the valley bed and not a water.
Its all about ancient Places.
but where did the water go
I visit magna Grecia and I love it I think with Sicily is the most cool place in Europe
People went to the mountains when Byzantium lost the supremacy in medditeraneo sea and the Arabs start looting the city's around the coast all over Italy Greece and Anatolia ..all this happened at the 7-8 century ...anyway at 1980s people start leaving their villages and the return to sea coast ,or emigrate to the north Italy and Europe...of course many of them went to America's USA and Argentina
Is that a mud river?
How can a village be a ghost town?
Good question, Rex! When it comes to Roghudi Vecchio, it was abandoned after a flood left the area uninhabitable. To learn more, read on: on.natgeo.com/2rxCy13
Looks like Afghanistan
Shiey just visited ?!
Lol yes
so what did people do to thrive there? grow grapes on terraces or what? it's such a beautiful place! i'd love to move there with all my friends and family, but it does look like a tough place to garden and farm!
Immigration is a beautiful thing! Emigration can be heartbreaking though.
That region is famous for its Olive and Orange trees coltivations, it's also a perfect land for farming goats.
It is also close to the sea, Calabria has one of the most beautiful beaches of Italy with crystal clear waters.
Before 2k
That'll happen.
Pls upload great icon
Why Italian town are on hill
This is a Greek or Arberesh village ??
Greek. Arabeshe villages are in upper Calabria region.Cosenza areas.
Who’s here because of online classes 😷
But their is no ghost
Corey Messick 😂😂😂😂
A revolução industrial tem o seu contributo não tem?? Desertificação das vilas, aldeias no interior em contraponto com o excesso de pessoas no litoral ...migração e emigração... Há pessoas a comprarem ilhas, terras desertas... isto torna-se já um apanágio!!
im on youtube to watch, not read.
lets colonize it lol
Some centuries later, earth will be a ghost planet.
Unlike today, the immigrants back then were actually productive and made a honorable name for themselves. lol
But MOM!!! Because back then there weren’t unnecessary bureaucracy to prevent immigrants from working and making an impact. People just minded their own business and were happy for others inc. immigrants to prosper.
Sorry, but in the case of the greeks, they beat the original peoples back then settled this area by force. Several of the towns were settled by mamertine greek soldiers who came, saw, conquered, pillaged and plowed. Hence the greek still being spoken in the area and even moreso over on the ionian coast.
Todays immigrants do triple of you do, i can bet on that.
there were no overpopulation, and unemployment didn't exist
Overpopulation is not true at the moment; you are thinking over-crowding. Also, immigrants today have explicitly demonstrated their opportunism to live in high-grossing cities.
Omg first i want a heart
Where are the ghosts? Clickbait.
Is that in godfather
Aditya Jain
No but in southern Italy/Sicily there are hundreds of little villages like that, the one in godfather was corleone.
Send the “refugees” here
So that's why Italians are darker.
Aku6Soku1Zan
Because of what?
Why?
First🐖🏇😳🤕😡🍌
You hurt your head? Commenting pointless "first" when no one cares? Hope you feel accomplished.
Just stop ✋
Did it just said "IONIA"?!
Lol gamers alert !!
Give it to the immigrants
First
SwagBoiDaVeon stop
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You Tube lol
PantsB4Squares I somehow can’t
SwagBoiDaVeon you'll grow up. Just give it some effort
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