Bussana Vecchia
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| Country | Italy | ||
| region | Liguria | ||
| province | Imperia (IM) | ||
| local community | Sanremo | ||
| Coordinates | 43 ° 50 ' N , 7 ° 50' E | ||
| height | 200 m slm | ||
| Residents | 66 (2001) | ||
| Telephone code | CAP | 18038 | |
Bussana Vecchia is a fraction of the municipality of Sanremo in the Liguria region and belongs to the province of Imperia . The medieval village was destroyed by an earthquake in 1887 and abandoned by the surviving inhabitants. It has been illegally settled by international artists since the 1960s.
history
Early history
Bussana was probably founded in Roman times under the name Armedina or Armedana . In the seventh century, the inhabitants of the Armea valley sought protection from the Longobards . After attacks by the Saracens in the tenth century, the settlement was relocated to the more defensible location on the mountain. At the beginning of the 12th century, the Counts of Ventimiglia built a castle.
Earthquake in 1887
On February 23, 1887 ( Ash Wednesday ), the region around Genoa and Sanremo was rocked at 6:21 a.m. by an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.5 , in which around 2,000 people were killed. The old Bussana was largely destroyed, the survivors lived for a few years in huts they built in front of the village. In 1894 the settlement was abandoned, further down in the valley today's Bussana (Nuova) emerged as a district of Sanremo.
Repopulation
After the end of the Second World War , migrant workers from southern Italy used the derelict houses of the ghost town as accommodation. The Italian authorities cleared the settlement in the 1950s and tried to make the houses uninhabitable through further destruction.
In the early 1960s, the Turin artist Mario Giani (artist name: Clizia) founded an international artist colony Colonia Internazionale degli Artisti in Bussana Vecchia . During the hippie era, artists from many countries came and restored the houses, built water supply and sewer systems.
Due to the unexplained circumstances, the authorities again ordered the evacuation in 1969 and demanded that it be restored to its previous state. However, this was not carried out because of the resistance of the residents.
Today there are artist studios, some shops, restaurants and bars in Bussana Vecchia.
In Bussana Vecchia, the novel by Reinhard Rinnerthaler is largely about "When Peter preferred to save his beer than the church - a satirical legend of saints" (Edition Innsalz, 2013).
Web links
Bussana Vecchia, Villaggio Internazionale Artisti / International Artist Village (it, en)
credentials
- ↑ a b c Bussana Vecchia. International Artist Village, Detailed History. P. 1ff , accessed on October 2, 2013 (English).
- ^ Earthquake strikes Mediterranean. THIS DAY IN HISTORY, A&E Television Networks, accessed October 2, 2013 .
- ^ Artists fight for Italian village. BBC News, August 9, 2000, accessed October 3, 2013 .