The most expensive home cost him €500 (£427), three were bought for the princely sum of €1 each, and one was actually given ...

Today, Tabbone, 45, uses her Sicily property as a vacation getaway, and she says it feels like a primary residence. The home ...

Narrator: And that's Gillian, a new homeowner in Sambuca, Sicily, a picturesque town in Italy's countryside in danger of dying out. That is, until the government started selling abandoned homes ...