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In 1980, an earthquake destroyed this village, but one former resident still walks its streets today.
Vincenzo spends every afternoon in Alianello to feed his chickens and "to pass some time." Before darkness falls, he secures the animals in a natural cave, then he goes home to Alianello Nuovo - the mild-mannered retired garbage man, who lived here from 1976 to 1980, is the last caretaker of a town that was declared not fit to live in after the 1980 earthquake but was definitively abandoned only in 2000. Alianello, a hamlet of the Municipality of Aliano, risks collapse, like many things in this part of Basilicata. The eviction order was ignored by about half of its 300 inhabitants at the time, those who did not want to move to the prefabricated buildings built a few kilometers away. But since 1980, the Municipality of Aliano has no longer provided essential services so one after the other, even the most loyal ones had to raise the white flag.
