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Keeping a piazza alive in Italy’s small mountain towns and villages is no easy feat when stark statistics point to 15,000 threatened by depopulation. But sustainable steps can be taken that keep dreams and towns alive, like this neat initiative in the small town of  Fontecchio (AQ).

Many people whilst in Abruzzo have slept under a taranta, or under these brightly patterned blankets at their Abruzzesi grandparents, who took them upon emigrating