Three and a half years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, large parts of the center remain boarded up. L'Aquila is just like Pompeii, a ghost town only visited by some people who come just to see the ruins. Shoes and broken ornaments still lie in the dust in abandoned homes. Only four families have moved back into the city center, officials said.


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