12 Surreal Places in Italy

  It’s a country blessed with stunning landscapes and steeped in artistic and cultural heritage, but if you seek to go beyond the tourist attractions,  Italy  also has plenty of more unusual sights. Here’s our roundup. Civita di Bagnoregio This picture-perfect town in northern Lazio is a fairy tale come to life. Perched on a tufa rock hill in the Tiber River Valley, it was founded by the Etruscans 2,500 years ago but over the centuries was largely abandoned due to its friable terrain slowly eroding, earning the town its nickname  la città che muore  (the dying town). The Civita is connected to the mainland by a footbridge and famously has fewer than 15 residents year round, though tourism is thriving thanks to its position and charm. Civita di Bagnoregio has less than 15 permanent residents  © canbedone / Alamy Stock Photo Cinque Terre The fabled  Cinque Terre  (five villages), are cliffside fishing towns located in the northwest region ...