February 3rd 2013
Numbers and statistics
More than 25% houses have been sold since May 2010, and the houses archive has been growing until now, reaching 136 currently. This site has steadily continued to being visited, accepting "virtual visitors" coming from 123 States (of 194 Independent States in the whole World), visiting us for 59.525 times. The most clicking States are Italy (46.676 visits), Netherlands (5.465), USA (2.204), United Kingdom (847), Germany (663), France (375), Canada (339), Brazil (317), Switzerland (253), Belgium (236), Spain (169) and Argentina (130). The results are provided by Google Analytics service.
June 30th 2012
TG2 Dossier talks about us
The depopulation of the italian villages is the main subject of the June 30th special episode of TG2 Dossier. Going from the mountain villages of north Italy, now unhabited, to our little village where "A house in San Basile" brought great and unexpected results and the increase in population. The reportage extract is uploaded on YouTube at this link.
April 4th 2012
San Basile going to Bruxelles
The European Parliament invites the City of San Basile to join the group of 25 most virtuous cities of Calabria as model of good governance in South Italy. Most of the contributions goes to the project "A house in San Basile" and to the actions of the Municipal Administration. The web-zine Paese24.it, a online newsletter working in the north-eastern Calabria, talks about San Basile in the article available clicking here.
THE AVAILABLE BUILDINGS
NOTE: the houses showed in the gallery are all uninhabited. Anyway some of them are not on sale or available for rent.
There are tens of houses ready to be rent or selled and they fit for any kind of demand: little buildings in the old town, ideal for one or two people; bigger houses with large rooms for families; typical habitation with the "lower floor" - used a long time ago as stable and nowadays usable as a functional warehouse or garage - and, upstairs, two or three rooms accessible through the external stairs; buildings placed in the main streets of the town (migrant workers who came back from America own these big houses).
The living rooms are furnished of fireplaces and typical domestic furnaces usually used for bread cooking or proper recipes of the arbëreshë cooking tradition.
In the neighbourhood there are a lot of farmhouses with attached lands: these kind of combining may be transformed for housing use.
All houses are connected to the public services (utility companies): water-supply, power supply, methane, cable television and telephone.
There are little gardens and specific kitchen gardens in most of the houses: these are provided by flowers and perfumeries typical of the Pollino area.
Some houses have got terraces from which anyone may enjoy at the same time the view of the Pollino mountains (on the north side) and the Jonio sea (on the east side).
The local craftsmen may attend for the best renovation and modernization works at low prices.
NOTE: the houses showed in the gallery are all uninhabited. Anyway some of them are not on sale or available for rent.