Its just a bunch of old stone houses with red-tiled roofs and baby blue windows bordered in white.

But over the last few centuries, its inhabitants slowly moved away in search for livelier and non-agricultural prospects.

In the late 1990s, Colletta di Castelbianco was picked up for conversion into one of Europes first e-villages.

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These days, homes at Colletta di Castelbianco are incredibly expensive.

More affordable homes began from 137,000.

Colletta draws cultured buyers, the magazine had observed.

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