accarizzo di Montalto, Calabria

“THROUGH THE YEARS we lost everything,” Roberta Caruso says of her long impoverished hometown. “Even the post office shut down.” But in 2019, architects and entrepreneurs affiliated with MIT launched a program to revive the village, renovating buildings, blazing hiking trails and opening an artisanal food shop. Above, a carpenter restores old movie theater seats. Below, a citydweller, home for the weekend, gives his father a haircut. Right, the 13th-century Church of San Rocco.