A tiny village in the heart of deepest
Sardinia is fighting chronic depopulation with a new scheme to
lure 'digital nomads' from all over the world.
Ollolai, a village of about 1,200 souls in the heart of the
once-impenetrable but beautiful outlaw land Barbagia, has
dreamed up the project "Work from Ollolai/Traballa dae Ollolai",
together with a local cultural group.
The first nomad to take the bait is Clarese Partis, 39, a
designer with the agency User Experience, who has already
arrived from California and is settling in and starting her work
from home (WFH) experience.
But some 1,112 would-be Sardinian guests have replied to the
call on Ollolai's web portal, and Partis is not expected to be
alone for long.
The scheme follows a highly popular one-euro-a-home scheme that
has revived dying communities across southern Italy.
Ollolai joined that project and charged incomers one euro to buy
and do up abandoned homes in the village.
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