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In the early 1980s, a fascist-era rural village was abandoned.
The village of Monteruga is an abandoned rural hamlet in Salento built during fascist-era Italy in the early 1930s. It was once home to some 800 residents but after World War II, as farms were privatized, the population slowly declined. By the 1980s, it had been deserted and experienced a long period of abandonment which led it to become a place of interest for satanic cults. The local church was deconsecrated and over the years various rites and dark rituals were carried out inside it.
