Italy's most infamous housing estate and the setting for the hit TV series Gomorrah is being demolished after residents won their decades-long fight.
Long associated with organised crime and destitution, La Vele was once a massive network of blocks in Scampia, in the Neapolitan suburbs.
The brutalist structures were for a time western Europe's arms and drugs shopping mall.
The sail-shaped towers were built in the 1960s to provide the working class with easy access to Naples, but left them feeling isolated and neglected.
A view of one of La Vele's towers (the sail) in Scampia in the suburbs of Naples - at the peak of its deprivation and depravity there was more than a murder-a-day and more syringes in every square kilometre than all of Italy combined
The brutal mafia lifestyles of some of the residents inspired the fictional writings of Roberto Saviano on which a movie and TV series are based (pictured: Salvatore Espositon and Marco D'Amore in the first season of the TV series)
A view of the iconic towers from a walkway as a local zips along on his scooter with his dog running ahead
Most of the families have been moved to newer buildings in the area, with just 300 people remaining in one of the old buildings this week.
In 2004, the towers captivated the public during a highly-publicised war which raged over control of the drugs trade between the Di Lauro Camorra clan and the Secessionists.
At the peak of its deprivation and depravity there was more than a murder-a-day and more syringes in every square kilometre than all of Italy combined.
It inspired the an award-winning film released in 2008, based on the novel Gomorrah written by Roberto Saviano.
Designed by Franz Di Salvo and built in 1962, in recent years they deteriorated into a notorious slum
Marco D'Amore and Antonio Milo in the first series of the TV show, dining on the rooftop among the brutalist structures
The violence of the gangs in La Vele inspired the fictional world which inspired residents to have their area redeveloped
And has been spun off into a hit TV show airing on Sky Italia and later Sky Atlantic in the UK since 2014.
Indeed, the destruction of La Vele poses a problem for the producers who have been using it as their set.
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