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Bussana Vecchia (1)

24.05.2011 0

Italian Riviera: Once devestated by an earthquake, Bussana Vecchia is a ghost town turned artists’ utopian dream. But with the government trying to close it down and mass tourism moving in, has this paradise been corrupted?

Living in the ruins of paradise

With tremors con-tinuing to ripple through Japan as they try to recover from March's deva-stating earthquake and tsunami, the scars marking the landscape in the most severely hit areas of the country are not only physical. Read more …

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