Ropoto: Greece’s Sinking Ghost Town and Its Leaning Church That Tests Your Balance

Written on 03/27/2026
Anastasios Papapostolou

Ropoto was once a thriving village near Trikala in Greece’s Thessaly and home to three hundred families, but a landslide in 2012 turned the village into a ghost town. Today, forgotten by people and authorities, Ropoto’s terrain is still sinking, slowly moving the half-standing structures. The few people who decided to remain live in shacks […]