The village of Airole like many thousands of villages throughout Italy is built on a hillside. What is incredible first of all is how they built them with no modern building equipment and secondly the planning - did the villagers have some kind of master plan or was it all haphazard. Anyway, some have survived due to investment from people from a variety of European countries. Airole for example, from the 1960s onwards saw the arrival of Dutch, German and Swedish (and a few British) tourists who bought holiday homes, making Airole a very international village and everyone seems to get on very well with each other.
