Damaged houses in San Lorenzo, near the Italian village of Amatrice, three days after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region. A little further down the leafy valley is the town of San Lorenzo e Flaviano, also badly damaged. “All of my most cherished childhood memories are from here,” said Barbara Bonifazi, 32, who lives and works in Rome but returns often to San Lorenzo. “At night, you can see every star in the sky.”Roberto Nibi, 67, is an architect who lives in Rome but was born in San Lorenzo. Voted one of Italy’s most beautiful towns, Amatrice was hammered by the calamity, almost every house in the historic centre destroyed and even the school, which was meant to have been earthquake proofed, torn apart.

Source: Mint August 27, 2016 17:26 UTC