Civita di Bagnoregio, ten residents and a footbridge to get in
Civita, a hamlet of Bagnoregio in the province of Viterbo, in Lazio, sits on a slab of tuff resting on clay, and the clay gives way: for centuries the edges have crumbled, taking the houses with them. On 10 June 1695 an earthquake cut it off from the rest of the town, opening the ravine that still divides them; today the only way in is a reinforced-concrete footbridge built in 1965. The writer Bonaventura Tecchi, who spent his youth here, called it “the dying town”. In 2025 it had ten residents; visitors, 40,000 in 2010, were estimated at 850,000 in 2017, and since June 2013 there is an entrance fee. Here Giovanni Fidanza was born, known to the world as Saint Bonaventure.