Italy: Abruzzo
Abruzzo travel guide. Holiday advice and tourist tips including Pescara highlights, resorts, local cuisine, beaches, skiing, trekking, ancient sites and monasteries. Also features medieval villages, Civitella del Tronto, Campo Imperatore, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Rocca Calascio Fortress, Tagliacozzo, Pescocostanzo, Neolithic and Roman ruins.
Edition: 4
Number of pages: 312
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About this book
This new, fourth edition of Bradt’s Italy: Abruzzo remains the only standalone English-language guide to this beautiful, increasingly favoured part of Italy. Abruzzo offers the best of undiscovered Italy, from pristine beaches to mountain glaciers, with charming medieval villages clinging to the hillsides in between. This edition has been thoroughly updated to cover all recent developments, explaining in detail its appeal for active tourism, including wildlife-watching, trekking, skiing and horse-riding, plus family holidays.
Abruzzo offers one of Italy’s most beautiful coastlines, which lie near the country’s tallest mountain ranges outside the Alps. Little wonder that Abruzzo is Italy’s second most popular skiing centre bar the Alps and that it offers some the country’s finest hiking and wildlife-watching opportunities. Moreover, according to the ‘I Borghi Più Belli d’Italia’ (‘Italy’s most beautiful towns’) programme, Abruzzo has 25 such locations, second only to Umbria.
What makes the Abruzzo region remarkable is that, despite being so close to Rome, it is still about as unique and authentic an Italian experience as you can get in a country so devoured by international tourism. The Abruzzesi feel a sense of relief about this, viewing theirs as the one truly untouched region in Italy – and this despite increasing accessibility from other European countries and its emergence as a leading conference destination.
Alongside practical information on how to get around, and suggestions for the best places to stay and eat (including both secret urban gems and remote rural idylls), Bradt’s Italy: Abruzzo also advises on where to go to enjoy Blue Flag beaches, mountain walks, pristine castles, frescoed churches, World War II commemorative sites, Roman ruins and the chance to spot charismatic animals such as brown bears and grey wolves. There is extensive coverage of Abruzzo’s notable cultural and linguistic diversity, and of its cuisine: Abruzzo is home to most of Italy’s pasta production.
Written with warmth and insight by a native Abruzzese, this fourth edition of Bradt’s Italy: Abruzzo contains all the practical and background information, and expert local advice, you need to discover this surprising, enchanting Italian region.
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About the Author
Luciano Di Gregorio (lucianodigregorio.com) is a freelance writer and editor, as well as an educator at both secondary and tertiary levels. He was born and raised as a child in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) and later grew up in Melbourne. Luciano spent almost ten years living in Hong Kong, as well as a few years living in London and Brussels. He is currently focusing on an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, as well as lecturing for a university. He speaks a number of languages and strives to learn more. As a freelance travel writer, he has written every edition of Bradt’s Italy: Abruzzo, has updated other guidebooks and has written for various newspapers and magazines. He recently returned to Abruzzo to live.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
PART ONE GENERAL INFORMATION
Chapter 1 Background Information
Chapter 2 Practical Information
PART TWO PESCARA
Chapter 3 Pescara
Chapter 4 Pescara Province
PART THREE CHIETI
Chapter 5 Chieti
Chapter 6 Chieti Province
PART FOUR L’AQUILA
Chapter 7 L’Aquila
Chapter 8 L’Aquila Province: Gran Sasso National Park and Surrounds
Chapter 9 L’Aquila Province: Sirente Velino Regional Park and Surrounds
Chapter 10 L’Aquila Province: Southwest Abruzzo
Chapter 11 L’Aquila Province: National Park of Abruzzo and Surrounds
Chapter 12 L’Aquila Province: Majella National Park and Surrounds
PART FIVE TERAMO
Chapter 13 Teramo
Chapter 14 Teramo Province
Appendices Language, Glossary of Fauna and Flora, Further Information
Index
