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Peace upon the mountains

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🔥The real satisfaction after a long hike is reaching heaven on earth🔥

Lago di cima, Valle Artogna, Valsesia, Italy

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Erbareti, Italy

Erbareti is a ghost town at 956 m/3,136 ft in the middle of the forest in the Italian Alps.

(Incredibly tall stone wall with a house on top)

Before the second Word war there were around 1,000 people living in the town, there was even a school.

Due to the isolation and the difficult living conditions people moved out of Erbareti.

Now there is no stable population and in winter it's completely abandoned.

Some effort is being made to preserve and renovated some of the houses, while many others are being totally left to their fates by the owners.

An unpaved road was built, and it's about to be attached to the high-speed fiber optic internet network, I guess to attract more people to even work from there.

I personally would see a silence-seeking artist living there, thanks for its isolation the only sounds heard are birdsongs and wild animals' noises.

(San Gaudenzio church)

Now there are just few people who stay there, mainly in summer, few locals who inherited their families' houses, and few foreigners who bought and renovated them. All of them are part of the association "Corsorzio di Erbareti", they promote the annual celebration of the Saint patron San Gaudenzio and the maintenance of Erbareti.

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Ibex goat on the bank of an alpine lake

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Female ibex goat

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Fountain in the mountains, located at an abandoned village which has become a summer holiday destination