Campodimele’s residents have become famed for their health and longevity and the village has been dubbed Europe’s ‘village of eternal youth’. At the last count, Campodimele – whose name comes from the Latin campus mellis, or ‘field of honey’ – had 840 residents, including one 104 year old, forty eight 90 year olds and three 99 year olds. The nonogenarians and centenarians aren’t sitting around in old people’s homes waiting to die though – they are cycling up and down the steep hill along with the young people, chatting animatedly in the cobbled piazza, working the olive groves, and chasing around after their goats.
Look for a doctor or a hospital or a pharmacist in Campodimele and you won’t find one – they don’t need them here. To find out more information about this Hot Spot, go to http://www.faber.akealife.com/.
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