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Airbnb and the “One-euro houses”: a year in Sicily to change your life

The opportunity to turn 2022? Getting away from the city, making a virtue of necessity by taking advantage of smartworking to try what it’s like to live in a place where life is slower, simpler and even more beautiful. For those who can, just rent a house, or try to “win” a (beautiful) one with Airbnb, who has thought of a new project to enhance the Italian villages: he is looking for a person (or two, or an entire family) willing to move to Sambuca, in Sicily, becoming host of a “House for 1 euro”, of those offered for sale by the Municipality at a symbolic price, asking buyers in exchange to renovate and enhance them also by welcoming tourists.

The house is located in the historic center, a step away from the belvedere: it was an abandoned house and has been reborn thanks to a meticulous project signed by Palermo architecture studio Didea, which turned it into an elegant one design home, respecting its history, maintaining its structure. IS a house on three floors, with a living room and master bedroom with bathroom on the ground floor, a living room, kitchen, study, two bathrooms and a mezzanine with a double bed on the first floor, and on the second and last floor another living space with sofa read. A large, comfortable, and with many solutions to accommodate tourists, as well as the people who will live there as hosts.

To send your application, you must fill out the form on airbnb.it/1eurohouse by 18 February. The conditions for applying are be over 18 years old, be available to move to Sambuca for at least 3 consecutive months starting from 30 June 2022 (the maximum stay is one year) and have a good knowledge of the English language. Candidates will then have to demonstrate that they want to rent a room in the house on Airbnb. Those who will be selected, in addition to living in the house for free, will be able to bring their family (maximum two adults and two children) e withhold all revenue from renting the room on the platform, not to mention the unique opportunity to change your life, at least for a while.

«The beauty of this campaign is that it offers a second chance not only to a home
abandoned in the heart of our village, but also to the person who moves there “, he has declared Leonardo Ciaccio, Mayor of Sambuca di Sicilia. «We see it as a design restyling not only for the home, but also for the future host. Airbnb, the village and its community have a common goal: to attract people who in turn will open the doors to international travelers and give new life to Sambuca “, continued the mayor, also imagining the perfect host. “They must be like us, a little crazy and in love with the places, sounds and smells of this village, of everyday experiences. They should also have the desire to take part in daily life, such as the olive and grape harvest ».

This is also why Sambuca has become a model of urban regeneration: the village was the first to propose on a large scale the sale of decaying properties at the symbolic price of a coffee, with which it has managed to attract hundreds of new citizens from all over the world, who have repopulated it by buying 125 case after the depopulation that began in the 60s with the Belice earthquake. Now in Sambuca, together with many Italians, there are first of all Americans, Swiss and French which have changed their lives and given new life to houses that otherwise would have been abandoned welcoming new visitors, thus also starting a model of tourism that has definitively established itself during the pandemic. Second the data of Airbnb, in Italy, in the third
quarter of 2019 the only four cities of Rome, Venice, Milan and Florence accounted for
over 26% of all trips booked through the platform, while in the third quarter of 2021 those same four cities accounted for less than 17% and Sicily was
one of the most visited areas in Italy.

Here are the photos of the Sambuca residence

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