28 févr. 2018

Documenting the Beauty of Italy’s Abandoned Villas


The photographer Eleonora Costi spent the last four years tracking down her country’s crumbling treasures.

Four years ago, Eleonora Costi, an Italian photographer based in Florence, was skimming through a local paper when she came across an article about an abandoned 14th-century villa located just few miles north of Milan. “It sounded like a good location to take photos, so I decided to go and check it out,” she says. “The first thing I remember is a vivid scent of wet wood and a haunting silence.”

- Atlas Obscura