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Alessio Perrone

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Alessio Perrone is a freelance journalist whose writing, besides Atlas Obscura, has appeared in The Guardian, Slate and TIME. Get in touch with him on Twitter:
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The beautiful Italian town has been left deserted since the '70s due to an aborted eruption.

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A False Volcano Emergency Created This Stunning Abandoned Village

Welcome to the ghost town of a modern Vesuvius that never happened.

By Alessio Perrone
Archeoplastica founder, naturalist, and guide Enzo Suma has collected old plastics from Italian beaches to illustrate how long this waste survives in the ocean.

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The 'Archaeology' of Plastics Is an Exercise in Nostalgia and Dread

An Italian naturalist and guide has turned beach trash and memory into a commentary on our age.

By Alessio Perrone
A CEA Demining team scours a wedge of land next to a rail line at the outskirts of Bologna, Italy.

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Tagging Along With Italy's Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

There's less and less for the country's demining companies to find. Sometimes they pine for the good old days.

By Alessio Perrone
The author and the founders of Spazi Indecisi with Pierfrancesco Cenni, owner of the Underground Cinema-Theater in Imola, Italy.

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A Tour Through Italy's Massive 'Museum of Abandonment'

The organizers posit that "derelict heritage" can be a path to rejuvenation.

By Alessio Perrone
Giulio Iannarone, of the Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, slides out one of the racks of valuable paintings in the vault.

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Inside Rome’s Secure Vault for Stolen Art

Some of the art is real, some fake, but it's all had a brush with the criminal underworld.

By Alessio Perrone
The Strangely Quiet Afterlife of a Brazilian Prison Town

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The Strangely Quiet Afterlife of a Brazilian Prison Town

The tropical beauty of Dois Rios comes with an ugly history.

By Alessio Perrone

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