Places

inspirational tour This is not just an itinerary: it is an experience that invites you to slow down and listen. In the Piana di Navelli, each step crosses a landscape shaped over the centuries, where art and agriculture are not separate, but part of the same story. Here the journey becomes an inspirational path: among saffron fields,...

Prata d'Ansidonia is one of those places where the landscape tells the story even before the monuments. Located in the hinterland of L'Aquila, the area preserves testimonies that span the centuries, from ancient Rome to the Middle Ages, offering visitors a slow journey through archaeology, architecture and nature. Strolling through the alleys of prata...

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,...

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...

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….