{"id":13496,"date":"2021-08-02T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topsecretsicily.com\/non-categorizzato\/cunziria-vizzini-the-ghost-town-of-1700\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:06:26","slug":"cunziria-vizzini-the-ghost-town-of-1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topsecretsicily.com\/en\/province-of-catania\/cunziria-vizzini-the-ghost-town-of-1700\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunziria, Vizzini – The ghost town of 1700"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Did you know that in Sicily near Vizzini there is a completely abandoned village from the 1700s?<\/strong> It is Cunziria, a village in a valley, in the middle of “woods” of prickly pears<\/strong> , where time has stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T he center of about 40 houses was born near Vizzini, around a tannery<\/strong> . The inhabitants were mainly the workers of this tannery, whose business was definitively abandoned in the 1920s<\/strong> . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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