Bussana Vecchia
Bussana Vecchia is a former ghost town in Liguria, Italy. Abandoned due to an earthquake in 1887, it was renovated and repopulated by an international community of artists in the early 1960s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sant’Egidio and Santa Margherita.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poggio di San Remo and Bussana.
Poggio di San Remo
Village
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The Poggio di San Remo is a hill in the Italian region Liguria, near Sanremo.
Bussana
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bussana is an Italian hamlet of the municipality of Sanremo in the Province of Imperia, Liguria. As of 2009, its population was 74. The original Bussana was partly destroyed and abandoned after an earthquake in 1887.
Bussana Vecchia
- Type: Hamlet with 66 residents
- Description: former ghost town in Liguria, Italy
- Categories: frazione and locality
- Location: Sanremo, Province of Imperia, Liguria, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
43.83804° or 43° 50′ 17″ northLongitude
7.82923° or 7° 49′ 45″ eastPopulation
66Elevation
195 metres (640 feet)Open location code
8FM9RRQH+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 316036267OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
9033434Wikidata ID
Q2479469
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Bussana Vecchia” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Croatian: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Czech: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Dutch: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوسانا فيكيا”
- French: “Bussana Vecchia”
- German: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Hungarian: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Italian: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Italian: “Villaggio Internazionale degli Artisti”
- Persian: “بوسانو ویچیا”
- Russian: “Буссана-Веккья”
- Serbian: “Busana Vakija”
- Serbian: “Busana Vekija”
- Serbian: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Serbian: “Бусана Векија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Busana Vekija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Spanish: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Swedish: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Turkish: “Bussana Vecchia”
- Ukrainian: “Стара Буссана”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Space Art Gallery and Artista Daniela Gabelo.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bussana Vecchia”. Photo: JoJan, CC BY 3.0.