In Calabria, there is a particular city of its kind, where, thanks to Greek settlements, the Greek language was commonly spoken and which is now divided into two different hamlets, Roghudi old and Roghudi new distant from each other well 40 kilometers.

In 1971 and 1973, in fact, two strong and devastating floods temporarily submerged the town, which was therefore declared completely unusable. For this reason, the inhabitants of the characteristic town were all transferred to a new residential area called Roghudi new, leaving the old Roghudi completely uninhabited.

I take the bus from Reggio Calabria station to Melito di Porto Salvo where I arrive after two and a half hours of travel. I get off at the last stop of Roccaforte del Greco and I am going to walk to reach the uninhabited city of Old Roghudi.

It is located in a place where mountains and cliffs follow one another in the total absence of flat terrain, lying on the ridge of a hill that falls towards the bottom of the valley, surrounded at its base by two streams that make this place even more characteristic and particularly magical. The scenario that opens before my eyes is literally to take my breath away. The village, surrounded by impenetrable mountains, is located more than 500 m. above sea level on the ridge of the hill, which stands in the middle of the Amendolea River.

Walking through its deserted streets gives me a feeling of disorientation, a mixture of magical inspiration and attraction and a sadness for the bleak destiny that has come to this wonderful town in Calabria that still today continues undeterred to resist the wear and tear of time.