Wouldn’t it be great if you could move to Europe and that too for free? Well wishes do come true because this Italian village will pay you to do the same.
Presicce, a town in Puglia, is the most recent location in Italy to offer some financial incentives to prospective residents. CNN reports that officials have stated they will pay anyone up to €30,000 (or roughly $30,000) if they agree to buy an empty house and move in there permanently.
According to the outlet, the houses up for sale were all constructed before 1991 and start at 25,000 euros, so you might walk away with a reasonably priced new home owing to the community’s new “Welcome to Presicce-Acquarica” program
In recent years, towns all around Italy have competed to introduce creative initiatives aimed at enticing new residents to revive their fortunes.
There has been a frenzy of competition, with residences ranging from run-down structures going for less than a dollar to ready-to-move-in properties being sold for almost nothing.
Authorities in Presicce are hoping that the prospect of a financial incentive will revitalize their dwindling town, where there are fewer newborns every year.
According to local councillor Alfredo Palese, “there are many vacant residences in the historical centre built before 1991 that the we would like to see come to life again with new tenants.” “It is sad to see how our historic neighborhoods, which are full of beautiful architecture and artwork, are gradually becoming abandoned.”
Palese adds that although the deal’s details are still being worked out, authorities are prepared to start accepting applications in the coming weeks after information is posted on the town hall website.
The town will give potential residents up to 30,000 euros who agree to relocate and purchase one of these vacant homes.
Let’s learn more about this lovely town:
Presicce: A story of two towns
Palese claims that a 2019 merger with a neighboring city to become the larger Presicce-Acquarica town has left them with sufficient funds to make sure the project can continue for decades to come.
According to Italian legislation, this town will get additional public funds following the merger, around 1,000,000 euros per year for a number of years to come, which Palese plans to invest in order to rebuild the historic neighborhood.
Presicce and Acquarica presently have 9,000 residents altogether, however barely half of them reside in the neighborhood’s older areas.
The town hall has previously introduced several programmes to entice inhabitants, such as tax incentives for starting new businesses and baby bonus for families with children.
The town hall has previously introduced several programmes to entice inhabitants, such as tax incentives for starting new businesses and baby bonus for families with children.
Buyers must move to Presicce and acquire one of the pre-1991 houses that have been identified by officials in order to be eligible for the 30,000 euro incentive.
Palese claims that the starting price for a home is 500 euros per square meter. You should be able to purchase a 50 square meter home that needs some work for about 25,000 euros.
The city is also called the GREEN GOLD
Presicce can trace its origins to the Middle Ages, when towns grew up around a Saracen fortification that monks had constructed. As refuges for survivors of pirate raids, the monks constructed crypts and hidden olive mills.
The luxuriant olive groves that produce quality extra virgin olive oil earned it the nickname “city of green gold” in Puglia. It flourished throughout the Renaissance as a thriving lordship famed for its exquisite wine, cheeses, and cattle trade.
Many residents of the area dug caverns into the stony terrain of Presicce to live underground.
There is a network of 23 hidden chambers and olive mills known as Trappettari beneath the opulent Baroque palazzos.
Private entrances to underground chambers where enormous mills still stand are found in many old structures.
Presicce’s countryside displays the best of rural Puglia with old, isolated stone chapels with domes, Byzantine crypts, olive groves with enormous, twisted tree trunks, purple dry stone walls, and heavily guarded masserie farmlands where farmers once lived under the protection of strong lords to avoid pirate attacks.
Festivities and cuisine
Routes for hiking and bicycling flow through picturesque terrain studded with stone forts and sheep-grazing fields. A short distance away is the beautiful coastline of Salento, which stretches between the beach towns of Gallipoli and Santa Maria di Leuca.
A museum of peasant civilization that displays artefacts from the past is among the attractions, in addition to tours of underground oil mills and festivals with olive oil and food samples.
Salentina folk music, dance, vintage crafts, and food markets are featured during annual festivals.
Along with the famous handmade pastas, orecchiette and strascinate, Presicce’s fried fish specialties, which are connected to the Saint Andrew cult, are a gourmet delicacy. Pittule-leavened pasta pancakes loaded with shrimp, cod, vegetables, or prepared alla pizzaiola with olives, capers, and cherry tomatoes are among the other local delights.
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