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Known for its striking geothermal geography and sulfurous springs to which it owes its name of Valle Del Diavolo (Devil's Valley), it was there that Dante found inspiration for his Inferno.

In 1911, the world's first geothermal power plant was built in the area to generate electricity. Modernist villages were later constructed by the iconic Italian architect Giovanni Michelucci to house the thousands of workers brought in to operate the plant. But by the early 1980s, the power plant had become increasingly automated leading to major unemployment, rapid depopulation and in some cases, …