Exploring an Italian ghost town in a Lamborghini Urus.
After a journey of nearly 500 miles along most of the length of Italy, we reach the village of Roscigno Vecchia without its most famous inhabitant. He seems to have fled even farther.SIGN UP FOR THE TRACK CLUB BY R&T FOR MORE EXCLUSIVE STORIES
Left to ruin, Roscigno Vecchia has become almost impossibly scenic, especially in the sun of an early spring morning. Photographer Amy Shore and I arrive to find something that looks like it was created by a set designer rather than random chance. Many buildings have tumbled into piles of rubble, while others have lost walls and roofs. Some sit balanced like endgame Jenga puzzles, sporting cracks and gaps that make it seem impossible for them to still be standing upright.
; it also sounds and drives like a Lamborghini should. While a Huracán or an Aventador would be much lighter and more agile, you don’t need to go deep into Lamborghini’s back catalog to find supercars the Urus could out-handle. The Miura, the Countach, and the Diablo—definitely. Despite its six-foot eyeline, the Urus turns in more eagerly and finds more grip, and its huge carbon-ceramic brakes shed speed with greater assurance.
The van quickly loses patience and, on a straight that definitely isn’t long enough for the maneuver, lumbers past in a cloud of diesel fumes, revealing that the now-unobscured Panda has a light on its roof and wears the livery of Italy’s carabinieri paramilitary police force. We trundle behind the law for a few more turns, until the urge to follow the van’s example becomes overwhelming . The two officers barely glance over as the Urus surges past in a wave of sound and fury.
Conversation is, initially, a challenge. Giuseppe speaks almost no English, and my Italian doesn’t run much beyond the basics required for ordering pizza and beer, let alone the intricacies of local dialect. Despite this, he is more than happy to show us around, posing for pictures against scenic backdrops and cracking a smile when I say he looks like Ernest Hemingway. His English-speaking son, Gianfranco, soon arrives and improves on my attempts to translate hand gestures.
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