Italian tourism region: Towns wiped out after deadly earthquake

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Update: 21 dead, hundreds missing as Italian earthquake victims are buried underneath collapsed homes, bed & breakfasts, and bridges.

Update: 21 dead, hundreds missing as Italian earthquake victims are buried underneath collapsed homes, bed & breakfasts, and bridges. Visit Italy says about Amatrice: Discover the monuments, buildings, natural treasures and all the details that characterize Amatrice and its territory.

Amatrice may not be a town anymore, and history may have been wiped out including residential buildings and the people buried below those buildings.

The major of Amatrice told AP with tears in his eyes: Residents are buried under debris and that the town “isn’t here anymore.”

This is the chaotic scene faced by first responders at 5:00 am this Wednesday morning in Central Italian towns. It’s not known how many tourists stayed in the earthquake-destroyed region of Central Italy.

Amatrice is a town and community in the Central Italian province of Rieti in northern Lazio. The city is seat of the food-agricultural base of “Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park.”


As reported earlier in eTurboNews, the situation is serious in the towns of Amatrice and Castelluccio di Norcia near Perugia and Rieti.

This is after a 6.2 strong earthquake hit Italy and was felt strongly from as far away as Rome.

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Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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