Italian dream: Christina and Pete Sobolev, both in their sixties, bought a home in the hilltop village of Santa Domenica Talao, near Scalea, Calabria in a bid to save their marriage.

Italian dream: Christina and Pete Sobolev, both in their sixties, bought a home in the hilltop village of Santa Domenica Talao, near Scalea, Calabria in a bid to save their marriage. (Chris ...

New beginning: The pair, both of Italian descent, bought a three-bedroom home in the coastal town of Scalea, Calabria, after seeing an online advertisement.

Christina and Pete Sobolev, both in their 60s, bought a ruin in the hilltop village of Santa Domenica Talao, near Scalea in Calabria, a southern Italian region filled with depopulated towns, in ...