Airbnb and NGO Wonder Grottole chose 5 volunteers to live in Grottole, Italy

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Who would not like to live three months in Italy, with everything paid for? An Argentinian and four other volunteers from different countries will fulfill this dream, having been selected by Airbnb and the NGO Wonder Grottole: from June to August this year they will move to Grottole, province of Matera (cultural capital of Europe).

Among more than 280,000 candidates from around the world who signed up to take part in the Italian Sabbath initiative, five volunteers were finally chosen to be "inhabitants" of the Grottole village, with the possibility of learning Italian, helping to run a community garden and cook typical Italian meals with ingredients grown with your own hands.

Who is the Argentine who won? At 35, Pablo Colangelo is a software engineer and host on Airbnb. Although he has Italian roots, Pablo is from Buenos Aires and never lived outside of a big city.

In Argentina alone, more than 40,000 applications were received and, in second place behind the United States, it showed great interest in the proposal.

The inhabitants of the small community of Grottole were surprised to learn that more than a quarter of a million people from all over the planet were willing to assemble their suitcases and move to Italy for three months to help give a new life to the town.

Located along a hill in southern Italy, Grottole has only 300 inhabitants in its historic center and has 600 uninhabited homes.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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