Date archives: 22 February, 2026

Caporciano is a small village, just two hundred inhabitants, stone houses gathered at an altitude of 836 metres, overlooking the vast Navelli plain like a natural balcony. Here, the silence tells of castles, monasteries, medieval wars and a faith that has left extraordinary traces among the rocks and...

There is a place in Abruzzo that many people think they know, but have actually only touched. It is Calascio, the village of the famous Rocca Calascio, the highest castle in Italy, suspended at an altitude of 1464 metres and visited by more than seventy thousand visitors a year. Strolling through the alleys of calascio The...

Barisciano, a few kilometres from L'Aquila, stretched with natural elegance under the slopes of a tree-lined hill and facing the great mountains of Abruzzo, Barisciano is the largest of the Gran Sasso d'Italia's storytelling villages, a community of almost two thousand inhabitants that preserves the strong character...

At the foot of the Gran Sasso d'Italia there is a village that seems to be born from stone and wind, a place where the air smells of real mountains and the silence still has the sound of footsteps on ancient pavements. Strolling through the alleys of Castel del Monte Castel del Monte suddenly appears,...

A little lower than Castelvecchio Calvisio, as if the mountain had wanted to place a second jewel in its folds, appears Carapelle Calvisio. Once they were a single village, a single soul divided only by time and the vicissitudes of history. Today they still share the same scents, the same air...

There are places you visit. And then there are places you feel. Castelvecchio Calvisio is one of those towns you immediately fall in love with, as soon as you breathe in its scent and absorb its colours. At an altitude of one thousand metres, embraced by the Tirino Valley and looking towards the...