Fra Noi Embrace Your Inner Italian
Ostana, a small town at the foot of the Monviso mountain in the Piemonte region of Italy, has seen its population grow from 10 to 150 in just a few years. A bakery and clinic have reopened, an alpaca farm has put down roots, and there are now rooms for rent to tourists, Corriere della Sera reported. What happened in Ostana is part of a larger trend of people leaving Italy’s urban areas to settle in the mountains. Between 2018 and 2023, the number of people living in Italy’s mountain communities increased by 100,000, according to a report from UNCEM (Union of Mountain Communities). The trend is most prevalent in Piemonte, Lombardia and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.
