Roghudi (Calabrian Greek: Ροχούδι, romanized: Richùdi, or Rigùdi) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) southwest of Catanzaro and about 20 …

May 8, 2018 · The ghost town of Roghudi Vecchio, in the hilly Calabria region, was once home to one of Italy's last Greek-speaking communities.

Roghudi (Ρηχούδι, Richùdi o Rigùdi in greco-calabro [3]) è un comune italiano di 920 abitanti [1] della città metropolitana di Reggio Calabria in Calabria. Geografia fisica [ modifica | modifica wikitesto ]

The experience of visiting the ghost village of Roghudi Vecchio is breathtaking and I can judge it not to be missed. You reach the village, abandoned in 1972 due to the risk of a landslide, via a road passable by car (sufficiently high) from Bova Superiore.

Mar 28, 2024 · At an altitude of about 530m above sea level, in the Aspromonte National Park, Roghudi Vecchio – not to be mistaken with Roghudi (Nuovo) – is a rather peculiar ghost town. The village sits on a steep rock, isolated, in an area …

Set within the Aspromonte mountains- rugged hills which loom over Calabria’s southernmost coastline – you will find a handful of tiny villages with Ancient Greek heritage. Yet Roghudi Vecchio is a hilltop town without the chattering of locals and drifting cooking smells.

Situated at an altitude of 527 m above sea level, on a rock in the heart of the Amendolea torrent region, with the mighty Mount Cavallo towering behind it, stands the ancient Griko speaking town of Roghudi, whose name comes the Greek word "rogòdes", meaning full of crevices, or "rhekhodes", harsh.

Oct 1, 2017 · Roghudi Vecchio, an abandoned village in Aspromonte, Southern Italy, was evacuated due to a flood in 1971. Inhabited since 1050 and located on a cliff, it was home to a Calabrian Greek-speaking community of shepherds and farmers

Roghudi was a thriving village until 1972, when a series of floods prompted the Calabrian authorities to declare it uninhabitable and move the population to a prefabricated new town on the coast.

One solitary rocky spur, rising from the white gravel of the river bed Amendolea, lies the ancient town of Roghudi. Already in the fifteenth century its name appears in official documents.