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Fausto Mottalini from a young age believed that for a good life people don’t need fast cars or luxury mansions. Shelter, food, healthy pastime and nature – that’s all that the opinion of the Italian, a rational human being is necessary for a full and happy existence.
That is why now the sixty-five-year-old man has left a few years ago native Rome and went to live in a desert ghost town at the foot of the Alps.
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Sostila is a small town. Home here made of gray stone and have thick wooden doors. IN Sostille has a church with a massive bell, a school where on desks to still lie textbooks left by children, as well as paved by ancient cobblestone roads long overgrown with dense grass. At the entrance to the city there is a large arch, but rarely does anyone come here. However, Mottalini, who is the one and only citizen, is the situation is more than satisfied.
To the city of my grandmother
The town has existed here since medieval times, but in the beginning of the last century about a hundred people who lived here, they left Sostila due to adverse weather conditions and the inability to properly engage in agriculture. More than a century city was completely uninhabited until in 2007 the Roman Fausto decided radically change your life. Hermit recalled stories grandmother, who lived at one time in Sostil and was forced leave this place with fellow countrymen. Mottalini sold all his property and moved to a ghost town, settling in a cozy a cottage that once belonged to his father’s mother.
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According to the man, picturesque landscapes, fresh alpine air, pristine green valleys and snow-covered mountainous peaks are akin to a drug for him. Once Fausto was a successful doctor, but life in a big city did not bring no joy to him. After a failed marriage, he quickly divorced his wife and went to live where his relative is from in due time, on the contrary, she left forever.
Mottalini has its own garden, which every year becomes More. A man grows fruits and vegetables here. According to Italian, for one person it is too much, therefore more he feeds part of the grown products to wild animals and birds, which became completely tame for him. Happy hermit while away time, photographing nature, reading books from grandmother home library, doing physical exercises and drinking wine, which is independently made from apples.
Life time
