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07 Sep 2026

Matt Fantinel
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Consonno Ghost Town

Taken on 2026-09-06

Consonno was a Lombard village for over a thousand years until, in the 1960s, a wealthy businessman bought the land, bulldozed villagers’ homes (some still occupied), and began building the “Las Vegas of Lombardy” — leveling the natural landscape for better mountain views.

The resort never took off, and construction stalled. The environmental damage caught up with it: landslides in the 1970s cut off access, closing the resort for good. It briefly became a home for the elderly before being abandoned entirely.

The graffiti-covered onion-domed minaret tower rising above trees at the abandoned ghost town of Consonno, Italy. An abandoned, overgrown building at Consonno covered in colorful graffiti, with vegetation climbing over its balcony and broken windows.A rusted, collapsing canopy walkway at Consonno, overtaken by plants and vines, running alongside a graffiti-covered building.An abandoned staircase at Consonno covered in graffiti, overgrown with vines and vegetation, with dry branches tangled across the path.

Consonno Ghost Town

Taken on 2026-09-06

Consonno was a Lombard village for over a thousand years until, in the 1960s, a wealthy businessman bought the land, bulldozed villagers’ homes (some still occupied), and began building the “Las Vegas of Lombardy” — leveling the natural landscape for better mountain views.

The resort never took off, and construction stalled. The environmental damage caught up with it: landslides in the 1970s cut off access, closing the resort for good. It briefly became a home for the elderly before being abandoned entirely.

06 Sep 2026

Matt Fantinel
Matt published a Blog Post
TIL:
A screenshot of the MDN intro paragraph about the HTML form attribute

TIL: Form controls can be outside their parent form

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Possible knowledge gap on my part, but cool nonetheless: the form attribute allows your form controls to live anywhere.

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