- 15 hours ago
Abandoned Engineering - Season 15 Episode 10 -
Peru's Massacre Island
Peru's Massacre Island
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00In Peru, a remote island scarred by a violent revolution.
00:05With the world watching, this group chose their moment to strike.
00:10A peaceful refuge in Nevada that offered hope to its occupants.
00:16This place attracted women from across the country in search of a better life.
00:23In France, a worker's paradise seized by an invading force.
00:29Facing annihilation, they didn't give in, but instead turned to resistance.
00:36And a rural Italian settlement trapped in a downward spiral.
00:42It became an idyllic home for many, but would be destroyed by a disastrous event.
00:59Off the Peruvian coast, an isolated compound tells the story of a country held captive by fear.
01:12In the Pacific Ocean, about five miles west of Peru's capital city, Lima, you come across a barren mountainous island.
01:22We can see buildings here. They have not been looked after. They've not been properly used in a very long time.
01:29In one of the roofless structures, we can find crumbling remains of tables and benches.
01:36Perhaps this had some type of institutional purpose.
01:40Take a closer look, and you start to see evidence that those who lived here didn't do so by choice.
01:47Bars on the windows and the secluded island location expose this site's true purpose.
01:56This is a bit like Alcatraz. This is where you're going to put the people who must never escape.
02:04This rocky outpost was designed to house Peru's most violent offenders.
02:11They were members of a militant organization that terrorized the Peruvian people in the name of communism.
02:19The Shining Path were well organized all over Peru, and that included this prison.
02:26As you look around, these buildings, they've not just been destroyed by wind and by waves.
02:36You can see there are bullet marks here.
02:40It looks as though a full-scale war took place.
02:45Los terroristas venÃan preparando el motÃn meses de atrás.
02:49Les quitaron sus armas, sus rifles, y gritaron, viva la toma.
02:53There are hostages being held on this island.
02:57The Peruvian government had to make a decision.
03:00They launched an attack, and what followed was a massacre.
03:10This island was uninhabited for most of its history.
03:13But in the early 20th century, the government found a perfect use for it.
03:17They built a prison.
03:19Initially, it was just used to house violent criminals.
03:23But in this turbulent world of Peruvian politics, it was soon the place where political prisoners were sent to.
03:32Those prisoners were members of a communist organization that formed in the 1970s.
03:38It was called the Shining Path.
03:42The terrorist group was able to exploit Peru's poverty-stricken rural population, which had suffered greatly under a succession of weak civilian governments and military dictatorships.
03:55The Shining Path were anti-government insurgents, and they organized themselves according to Mao Tse Tung's principles of revolutionary warfare.
04:10They were a highly militant organization and established a guerrilla army.
04:14Fabricio Tealdo is a local historian, familiar with the Shining Path's dramatic rise.
04:21They began to take the field, and little by little, they began to get to the cities.
04:29They had as a goal to take the capital, obviously, where the powers were in the state.
04:36By the early 1980s, the Shining Path's ranks had swelled to around 10,000 members.
04:46Their reign of terror included intimidation, public executions, and bombings throughout the country.
04:53The ultraviolence of the Shining Path was designed to frighten the Peruvian people into shifting their support from Peru as a state to the Shining Path as a movement.
05:11They knew how to choose their goals.
05:14And, also, they also chose, between the murders and the murders, as leaders, to have a greater capacity of action.
05:26As the Peruvian government started to succeed against the Shining Path, they knew it was very important to separate the Shining Path members from the general population of Peruvian prisons.
05:41In 1982, the facility here was repurposed to lock up the growing number of Shining Path radicals.
05:49This is El Fronton Prison Island.
05:54By 1986, there were over 160 presumed members of the Shining Path who were imprisoned at El Fronton.
06:03They were all housed in the Blue Pavilion block.
06:06But segregating the prisoners proved to be a fatal mistake.
06:13The Peruvian government were creating the ideal conditions for a new revolutionary cell on this little island, only five miles away from Lima, the capital of Peru.
06:27At 6am on June 18th, 1986, prison guards opened up the cells of the ground floor of the Blue Pavilion block.
06:37But, suddenly, they rushed the guards, taking them by surprise and attacking them with homemade weapons.
06:44Los terroristas tenÃan dardos, dagas, incluso pequeñas bazookas.
06:50They took hostages.
06:51They took hostages.
06:53Rapidly, they controlled the prison.
06:56Rapidly, they controlled the island.
06:59The Peruvian government soon discovered that the seizing of El Fronton was part of a much bigger plan.
07:09On the same day, members of the Shining Path had rioted in various other prisons throughout the country.
07:17This was a coordinated operation.
07:20This all took place when President Alan Garcia was hosting an international congress in Lima.
07:28This was an act of propaganda to humiliate the Peruvian government in front of the whole world.
07:38Armed police were immediately sent out to El Fronton, along with a negotiating team who tried to communicate with the rebels via loudspeaker.
07:47Holding three prison guards as hostages for leverage, they issued a long list of demands that included better prison conditions.
08:06It becomes very clear to the Peruvian government that they're going to have to use military force against this island.
08:15This was no easy task. The rioters had smuggled in dynamite, they had gotten guns from the guards, and they had even made their own crossbows.
08:23We are at the point where the military started the counterattack at around 5 and 15 p.m.
08:33We can see how important it was to take this point, which is the high area, to have a direct look and attack the red carpet.
08:41Throughout the night, the military pounded the blue pavilion with heavy gunfire.
08:48But their initial attacks were repelled by inmates who fired back at them and threw explosives in retaliation.
08:55With the attack failing, the president took an extreme step.
09:01He issued a supreme decree declaring the prison island a restricted military zone.
09:07This enabled President Garcia to ban civilian and judicial authorities from the island, which meant that the world would not see what happened next.
09:17The consequences were swift and brutal.
09:24The Peruvian government would wreak their revenge on the prisoners at El Fontán.
09:29As darkness fell, the special forces prepared themselves for an assault.
09:34A las tres de la mañana llegan las fuerzas de operaciones especiales.
09:38A pesar de eso, hasta el amanecer, los terroristas logran resistir.
09:44Se les pide nuevamente que se rindan y la respuesta es con cantos.
09:49Cantan la Internacional Socialista despertando la ira de la marina y ahà empieza a arrecer el ataque.
09:57Se les pide nuevamente.
09:59Government troops were able to rain down artillery shells onto the defenses that the prisoners had established.
10:07In the Blue Pavilion, the structure is starting to go to pieces.
10:11And the Shining Path are going to move into the cellar.
10:152 p.m. on June 18th, the remaining inmates shouted out that they wanted to surrender.
10:22By now, only around 30 of the Shining Path prisoners were still alive.
10:29More than a hundred had already died during the battle.
10:32But there were even greater acts of violence to follow.
10:37The shocking truth of which would not be revealed for many years.
10:41Se rinden, pero ahà no acaba la historia.
10:44Empiezan a traerlos de cinco en cinco a esta zona de la playa para fusilarlos.
10:54Their bodies were disposed in the trenches below the pavilion, covered in gasoline and burnt.
11:03In the aftermath of the massacre, witnesses came forward.
11:07The military's actions came under increasing scrutiny.
11:10Y a pesar de que ha habido diferentes juicios, utilizando testimonios de sobrevivientes, por cierto, ¿no?
11:19Sobrevivientes que en los cuerpos apilados han sobrevivido cinco, si no me equivoco, dos han dado testimonios.
11:26Y a pesar de eso, nos ha terminado de resolver los hechos por completo.
11:32Y de hecho, siguen investigando.
11:35The conflict with Shining Path eventually came to an end around the year 2000.
11:46It left some 70,000 people dead.
11:49El Frantan's haunting remains now serve as a grim reminder of one of Peru's most troubled and violent eras.
11:58In southern Nevada, USA, on the edge of Las Vegas, a scenic park contains the remnants of a revolutionary sanctuary.
12:16From the sky, this place stands out as a lush, green oasis, set against the backdrop of this dusty, dry desert.
12:25We can see a cluster of white buildings with a vaguely Spanish style like a ranch or a hacienda.
12:34Smaller structures dotted around the site suggest this was a place where people once resided.
12:41When you look in these rooms, they're kind of time capsules of the mid-20th century.
12:45You see wood paneling, pink tile in the bathrooms, kitchens that look like something out of the I Love Lucy show.
12:54The question is, who were these buildings for?
12:57So this is a part of Las Vegas history that many people are not aware of, including locals.
13:04This is a place that offered women a freedom they did not have access to before.
13:10Las Vegas has always been famous for the quickie wedding, but this place tells a different side of the story.
13:15And it wasn't long before major celebrities started coming to Nevada to stay at sites like this.
13:28Dr. Diane Seabrandt is a historic preservation officer for the city of Las Vegas.
13:34Her job is to protect culturally important sites like this.
13:38Many people believe that Las Vegas history starts and ends with gambling, but there was another tourist industry that is less well known.
13:52This property was a major part of that industry, and its origins are closely connected to the creation of Las Vegas itself.
14:01Today we think of Las Vegas as a huge city of glitz and shameless wealth, but a hundred years ago, it was a little rough-and-ready outpost in the desert, a place for travelers to stop in the midst of a grueling journey.
14:20This all changed with the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s.
14:24This was America's biggest engineering project since the Panama Canal, and it required thousands of workers.
14:31Almost overnight, Las Vegas turned into a boomtown.
14:36At the same time, the impact of the Great Depression began to hit hard, and it became obvious that drastic action was needed to stimulate the state's struggling economy.
14:47On March 19, 1931, the state governor signed Assembly Bill 98, which legalized gambling in the state of Nevada.
14:56One man, who had come to Las Vegas from the Midwest in 1928, was quick to capitalize on the liberal new law.
15:04Prosper Gooman was a businessman, and he, along with other businessmen, they purchased the Boulder Club, one of the first of four establishments that received legalized gambling licenses in Las Vegas.
15:21Gooman made a fortune from his new venture and quickly looked for additional ways to make money.
15:27In December 1941, he found the perfect place.
15:34Prosper Gooman was a man who could see an opportunity.
15:38He saw that this region of Nevada might be a place of economic growth.
15:46He invested a huge piece of property around these natural springs and this natural oasis in the desert.
15:53He developed this site from empty fields to a successful working ranch known as Tule Springs.
16:01Soon, it would be transformed into a prime holiday spot.
16:07So it initially was a working ranch, but it started taking on guests as a dude ranch.
16:14This was a time when America was fascinated by all things Western.
16:18So the notion of a dude ranch, a place where you could go and ride horses and spend time side by side with real working cowboys and maybe even come home with a cowboy hat.
16:33Though families seeking an authentic Western experience were not the only guests.
16:38If you were staying at Tule Springs Ranch in the 1940s, you wouldn't just see cowboys and horses roaming around.
16:49You'd probably also see a few glamorous young women.
16:53The reason they were here was because of legislation passed on the same day gambling was legalized in 1931.
17:00This new law introduced the concept of a quickie divorce and to qualify all you had to do was become a resident of Nevada and live there for six weeks.
17:12But you also had to have witnesses that attested that you had stayed in the same place for six weeks.
17:18So Prosper Guman recognized that opportunity and he opened up his ranch to a divorce ranch.
17:28At this time, ending a marriage was still very much taboo and difficult to achieve.
17:35Divorce ranches were an attractive option to speed up the process.
17:40Nevada's liberal divorce law was a dramatic contrast to most of the rest of the country.
17:46In other states, you'd have to prove all these difficult things that your husband had abandoned you or that some kind of abuse had taken place or various indiscretions.
17:56For women especially, this was a difficult, arduous legal process.
18:01In Nevada, it was more like what today we would call a no-fault divorce.
18:05You could claim mental anguish or mental cruelty, irreconcilable differences, and this allowed the women to get out of a marriage that perhaps was not healthy.
18:16Nevada openly advertised themselves as the divorce capital of the U.S.
18:21The remote location of Tule Springs made it an appealing choice.
18:26It was still very far from downtown Las Vegas, so you had your privacy.
18:30And I think that was one of the most important aspects of it.
18:34Women can enjoy themselves and relax before they get their divorce.
18:37There was a pool here.
18:39They could go fishing.
18:41There was also a shooting range.
18:43But divorce ranches were not an option for all women.
18:48A Nevada divorce required money, so this was really only accessible to women who were well-off.
18:54It could only really accommodate about a dozen people, so because this did really cater to a small clientele, it was very exclusive.
19:03In 1951, an up-and-coming movie star checked in.
19:07The space we are in right now, there was a young Hollywood starlet named Terry Moore, and we can just imagine that she's in this space here doing her makeup, maybe doing her hair, and getting ready for her day.
19:23Terry Moore was a relatively minor star, but her secret boyfriend was anything but obscure.
19:33So Terry Moore was here because she was having an affair with Howard Hughes.
19:40At the time, she was married to a football star named Glenn Davis, and the marriage didn't work out.
19:48Howard Hughes arranged for her to come here to seek her six-week residency in order to file for that quick Nevada divorce.
19:58Howard would have definitely visited her here or even stayed with her here.
20:05But Moore didn't stay for the full six weeks.
20:08It's rumored her husband, Glenn Davis, refused to agree to a quickie divorce, and wanted to use this as leverage to secure a big payout from Hughes.
20:20Their divorce was finally issued in 1952.
20:24But here's where things get complicated.
20:27As it turns out, when Terry Moore arrived at Tooley Springs, she was already married to Howard Hughes.
20:34The two had had a secret wedding offshore years prior.
20:39So her marriage to Glenn Davis was in fact a bigamous marriage.
20:44And in the ultimate Hollywood plot twist, none of this became public knowledge until after Howard Hughes' death in 1976.
20:50In 1954, three years after Hughes and Moore left Tooley Springs, its owner Prosper Gooman died.
21:03By 1959, the property was no longer being used as a divorce ranch.
21:08Divorce tourism to the state was in decline, and it made no financial sense to continue.
21:16After Prosper Gooman's death, the ranch had several owners.
21:20But fortunately, it eventually wound up in the hands of the state, which converted the ranch and the beautiful springs around it into a state park.
21:28We would love to do a large restoration project and get all these buildings restored, maybe turn them into some type of a period museum.
21:39In a fitting twist of irony, this site has done a full 180, as it's now a site to many weddings.
21:45In northeast France, 90 miles from Paris, stands a monument intended as a force for good that was hijacked by evil.
22:06This small town built along the banks of a river really looks like it's seen better days.
22:10But across the bridge, it's something that looks grand and ornate compared to the main street.
22:19These three vast wings of a building make up what looks like a palace fit for a king.
22:27The scale of this is grand, but when we look closely, we see that this is not a place of great riches.
22:34One empty unit after another is lined up around these courtyards. There must be hundreds of them in total.
22:42Only a few clues remain as to what these were. A narrow bathroom, remains of a kitchen.
22:49All of this suggests they were modest apartments.
22:53When constructed, this place was part of an innovative vision to improve workers' lives.
22:59In time, that dream turned into a nightmare.
23:06The German jackboot comes to this corner of France twice in the early 20th century.
23:14They arrived at these doors and the inhabitants' lives were plunged into chaos.
23:19During World War II, an individual act of extreme courage helped the Allies force out the Nazi occupiers.
23:27He knew he was taking his life into his hands, but that he had to do it to save the lives of others.
23:36The grandeur that we see today is all the result of one man's vision.
23:49He set out to change the way that French people worked and lived. But it had a modest beginning.
23:58In the early 19th century, Jean-Baptiste André Godin was a young apprentice, traveling around France, learning the trade of iron production.
24:07While he perfected his craft, he couldn't help but notice the terrible conditions in the factories and that workers around the country were suffering.
24:16Godin had grown up in relative poverty and was driven by a desire to help those even less fortunate than himself.
24:26Amélie Godbear works at this site today. Part of her role is to make certain the memory of the man who built it is never forgotten.
24:39He knows what it is not to eat every day, not to have a nice and clean place to live in, not to go to school.
24:48His idea is to make the workers' life better.
24:51But before Godin could make his mark, he needed to make his own fortune.
24:59Godin develops a new way of making stoves. He builds a stove that can be cast out of molten iron.
25:09Godin's got the potential to make stoves better and more efficiently than anyone in Europe.
25:16The design was a hit and production boomed.
25:19And he's got a lot of money because he's got the monopoly on the stove market.
25:26By 1859, Godin had amassed enough wealth to finally make his dream of helping the people who worked for him a reality.
25:36He set out building a collective settlement for his workers across the river from his factory.
25:41It's his own vision and he tries to transmit this philosophy. It's like an experiment.
25:50Godin called his utopian concept the Famillister. It was also known as the Social Palace of Guise.
25:58This was going to be a genuine community focused not only on production, but on productive living.
26:08The centrepieces were these three great apartment blocks built around central courtyards.
26:17They could house 2,000 people in 500 apartments.
26:20There was a theatre, a swimming pool, restaurants, stores and a nursery.
26:29There was even a school that provided free mandatory education for the workers' children.
26:34It was more than a high standard living because even the richer people in the town wouldn't have that.
26:41Godin continued to perfect his workers' utopia for the next 25 years.
26:49Godin even kept an apartment for himself.
26:54It's important to him if he wants to be the example, so he has to live here.
27:01Your job is not related to the size of your flat.
27:04You could be a manager. If you're single, you will have the smaller one, two rooms.
27:09If you're just a worker with a family of six kids, you will have a four bedroom, four rooms flat.
27:16So your job has nothing to do with the life in the family stay.
27:23But in 1888, at the age of 71, Godin passed away.
27:29Fortunately, he died knowing his legacy was safe in the hands of his workers.
27:36But soon, Godin's creation would face a threat he could never have imagined.
27:42One that would bring the social experiment to a shuddering halt.
27:46In 1914, when Germany attacks France, their plan is a rapid advance and they're going to take Paris.
27:55And that means the German army comes to Guise early in the First World War.
28:02About 200 factory workers were mobilized in defense.
28:05It's said that some of them were firing at the approaching army from the left wing of the residential complex.
28:12The battle would not last long.
28:14And after two days, the Germans overran the family stay and began a long occupation.
28:20Under German control, the theater was converted into a military prison.
28:27And the courtyard became a hospital for wounded soldiers.
28:30A place that was built for peaceful communal family life turns into a place of misery.
28:42And then when Germany exits the war with the armistice, it becomes possible to try to reestablish the dream here in Guise.
28:54The family stairs residents reclaimed their homes and eventually the factory began to operate once again.
29:03But the fragile peace did not last for long.
29:07Across the border, another malevolent power was mobilizing.
29:11On September the 1st, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and soon turned the full force of its army against France once more.
29:22During the Second World War, Germany ruthlessly exploited France for the Nazi war economy.
29:30This factory is repurposed to support the German war effort.
29:35For many of the workers and families, the memories of occupation were all too fresh.
29:43The residents of the family stair that worked in the factory were urged to collaborate or face brutal reprisals.
29:51They were instructed to continue making cast iron stoves, but this time chiefly for the German market.
29:58It rapidly became clear to a lot of French people, they could not accept the horror of Nazi occupation.
30:09So all over France, including here in Guise, those who were fit enough would become part of the French resistance.
30:16Maxime Pottier is a historian of the family stair and an expert on Jamar's heroics during World War II.
30:40He would be very proud to be joined by the German troops.
30:45He would be very proud to be given the ship.
30:47He would be very proud to be in the Republic of the Second World War II.
30:49He would be very proud to be in the Republic of the Second World War II.
30:51He would be very proud to be in the Republic of the Second World War II.
30:53On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the Allied forces landed in Normandy.
30:59Over the coming months, Hitler's troops were forced back towards the German border.
31:05By the end of August 1944, the US army was edging closer to Guise.
31:12The Allies had liberated Paris,
31:15and all across France the German army was retreating,
31:19sabotaging what it could as it went.
31:22Here in Guise, as the Germans were getting ready to leave,
31:26they packed the bridge with explosives,
31:29preparing to blow it up behind them.
31:31If they succeeded, it could have slowed down the Allied advance in this region.
31:55When the American forces arrived,
31:57they were able to cross the bridge over the oise and liberate the town,
32:01thanks to the bravery of one young man.
32:06At the end of the war, Godin's factory reopened,
32:10but its days as a worker's paradise were numbered.
32:14In 1970, it was purchased by a cookware company,
32:18who had no need for the Familles Staires.
32:21The apartments were sold to private owners,
32:24and by the early 2000s, many of them were abandoned.
32:32Today, after much careful restoration,
32:35visitors can walk the rooms and hallways to the Familles Staires,
32:39and see Godin's vision in all its glory.
32:42The school and theatre are still in use,
32:45and there are even plans to convert one wing into a hotel.
32:56In Sicily, Italy, an isolated settlement charts the tragic tale
33:01of a rural paradise forever lost.
33:10Agricultural fields stretch for miles around,
33:13and with mountains off in the distance.
33:15It's beautiful, but eerily quiet.
33:18In the centre of all of this rises a strange collection
33:22of crumbling buildings.
33:24The lines are symmetrical, simple, and clean-cut.
33:27The architecture is unusual for rural Sicily.
33:31On each of the buildings are signs that indicate
33:33their original purpose.
33:35School, laboratory, salon.
33:41Evidence that this was once a residential village.
33:44But it's peculiar to label each building
33:47in such a functional way,
33:49which suggests whoever built this
33:51was trying to impose some kind of order.
33:55Created to revitalise Sicily's countryside,
33:58this settlement was part of the vision
34:00of Italy's famous fascist dictator.
34:03But none of this explains why it's abandoned.
34:07For many years, this was a peaceful home,
34:09until a disastrous event began its slow demise.
34:13The final nail in this villager's coffin
34:16would be a tragic descent into violent crime.
34:19It was a violent crime.
34:28Luigi Salazzo lived in this rural village for almost 40 years.
34:32Luigi Salazzo lived in this rural village for almost 40 years.
34:39Luigi Salazzo lived in this rural village for almost 40 years.
34:45Luigi Salazzo lived widows in an
35:13to go back quite some time into southern Italy's history prior to the 20th century most of Sicily's
35:20agricultural land had been divided up into vast private estates owned by local nobility
35:27these were known as Latifundia and dated back to Roman times when Rome conquered Sicily and turned
35:34it into the breadbasket of Rome alongside North Africa this system of feudal landed estates
35:42persisted well into the 1800s and at the bottom of this social economic pyramid were the penniless
35:49peasants that did the back-breaking labor on the land itself when an economic crisis hit Sicily
35:56in the 1880s and made things even harder people started leaving
36:03over the next 30 years around 1 million Sicilians emigrated many to the United States
36:10the mass exodus left Italy without the means to produce enough food for the remaining population
36:18something drastic needed to be done before it was too late
36:24political upheaval and world war one delayed things then in 1922 Benito Mussolini and his fascist party
36:31forced their way into power Mussolini's ideology was ultra nationalist and all about self-sufficiency
36:38he didn't want Italy to have to rely on any other country for food at the beginning of 1940 they
36:45started building eight new villages spread across the island
36:50Mussolini come tanti altri borghi l'ha costruito per appunto incentivare la gente a coltivare i terreni
36:57per dare possibilità la gente di coltivare i terreni capiva effettivamente che c'era bisogno
37:05di del dove fare abitare i contadini
37:13this one was called borgo skyro borgo meaning village and skyro the surname of a fascist martyr
37:21killed by left-wing agitators in the 1920s on the 18th of december 1940 it was officially unveiled
37:30during a grand opening ceremony the village was designed to have everything the growing community
37:36needed and the goal was to encourage peasant families to move into the farmhouses that dotted the fields
37:45geared towards serving these new local farmers there was a school a post office a medical center and a general store
37:52well
38:13But soon the government was thrown into chaos as Mussolini's alliance with Hitler
38:18brought World War II to Sicily in 1943.
38:24When peace was restored to the island, the new government continued the land reform policy
38:30and Borgo Schiro could finally meet its potential for prosperity.
38:43At Borgo Schiro's peak during the 1950s, about 100 people lived in the village and its surrounding
39:10farmhouses. Life was simple and it was hard work, but for many, it was idyllic.
39:18But just as life seemed perfect, a catastrophe would hit Borgo Schiro and usher in its downfall.
39:26In 1968, a violent earthquake struck the valley of Belice, and the epicenter was a mere 17
39:33miles from the village of Borgo Schiro.
39:40The powerful tremor, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale,
40:10devastated the Belice Valley area of southwest Sicily.
40:15Four towns were completely destroyed, leaving 100,000 homeless and killing or injuring over
40:231,200 people.
40:25The government response was quite tepid.
40:28There was a lack of disaster planning, an excess of bureaucracy, and a lack of necessary supplies.
40:34The region was struggling, and many families left in the aftermath of the earthquake.
40:39That included the residents of Borgo Schiro.
40:43He was wounded.
40:44He was wounded.
40:48He was wounded.
40:49He was wounded.
40:50And I was wounded.
40:52He was wounded.
40:54And to start to a rut.
40:55I think that he was wounded.
40:56He was wounded.
40:57And to the left.
40:58I remember that.
40:59I remind myself.
41:00That you know that you know that.
41:02That's the way that they live here.
41:03Here we were a great family, all of them were in harmony.
41:10But Luigi and his parents refused to leave.
41:14This was their home, where three generations of Salazzos had built their lives.
41:21By the late 1980s, in a village where some 100 people used to live,
41:26they were the last family left.
41:30But living in a virtually abandoned town has its risks,
41:33and Burgosquillo became a target for criminals.
42:00After the Salazzos departed in 1995, Burgosquillo's abandonment was complete.
42:06It has continued to crumble ever since.
42:14There are currently no plans to demolish Burgosquillo,
42:17so you can happily walk around its ghostly streets
42:21and bear witness to an extraordinary remnant of Italy's fascist past.
42:26Almost.
42:27Sicuramente sì.
42:28Rattresenta in pieno uno stile di vita che non c'è più.
42:32Adesso la società è un rullo compressore.
42:36Qui si viveva in un modo tranquillo, calmo.
42:42Wow.
42:43.
42:44.
42:45.
42:46.
42:49.
42:54.
Be the first to comment