Sicilian freelance photographer Alessio Mamo has photographed the illegal, brutalist buildings and gaudy, now decaying, villas in the south of Italy that mafia bosses constructed
Today Pizzo Sella (above), which has gone down in history as the ‘hill of dishonour’, is an ancestral place straight out of a horror film: the rotting skeletons of 170 villas, some of which have been confiscated by the authorities, but were never razed, serve as shelters for birds and rats and have become an open-air rubbish heap. Dozens of unfinished and dilapidated constructions line the shores of spectacular beaches, where mobsters with ties to public administrators were permitted to build.
Via Things Magazine
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