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The Gran Sasso Storytelling Villages Festival returns on June 27th and 28th. There are places you visit and places you listen to. The Gran Sasso Storytelling Villages belong to the latter category: villages, communities, and landscapes that hold stories capable of recounting the most authentic identity of Abruzzo….

Every year the Ministry of Culture awards the title of Italian Capital of Culture to an Italian city, a recognition created to enhance the cultural, artistic and social heritage of territories and to stimulate projects capable of generating development, participation and future vision. The title is not only symbolic: it entails...

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,...