Villages and Towns of the Apennines
Santa Severina (KR) and its castle
By Redazione Published: 10/09/2013
A jewel perched on the uplands of the Sila, Santa Severina has been named one of the Borghi più Belli d'Italia (the most beautiful villages in Italy). The money from EU funds shows at once.…
Castello dei Magalotti di Fiastra
By Redazione Published: 27/08/2013
On the road that leads from Cupi to the Lago di Fiastra, the little village of Fiastra keeps a small treasure surrounded by greenery. Now in ruins, the Castello di Fiastra is recorded as having…
Rocca Calascio (AQ)
By Redazione Published: 29/07/2013
The castle of Rocca Calascio (Roccacalascio) is a building whose ruins rise above the village of Calascio, a small village in inland Abruzzo. Of this castle, which reached its greatest splendour around the 15th century,…
Cupi: a village of 15 inhabitants...
By Redazione Published: 11/07/2012
The place has a particular charm: to reach it you skirt broad conifer woods that give this corner of soft, rounded mountains a flavour of high mountains.On the road that leads from the Santuario della…
Opi in the upper Sangro...
By Redazione Published: 02/07/2012
In the heart of the Monti Marsicani, Opi is a small municipality of no more than 450 inhabitants in the Province of L'Aquila. Part of the local authority of the Comunità Montana dell'Alto Sangro e…
The pass and village of Gioia Vecchio (AQ)
By Redazione Published: 22/06/2012
Abruzzo, a region rich in natural and artistic beauty, all too often hands us some small disappointment. Such is the case of the Valico di Gioia Vecchio, an enchanted place suspended on a wonderful balcony…