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Villetta Barrea is a small village perched on a rocky spur in the beautiful region of Abruzzo and immersed in the nature of the Abruzzo National Park. The village is an ideal destination for nature lovers and mountain hikers. The Abruzzo village will amaze you above all by the presence of its unusual inhabitants, the deer. In fact, Villetta Barrea...

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In a tiny hilltop Italian village two hours from Rome but a world away, a team of design students recently moved into an empty building and began plotting out the future. Pettorano sul Gizio, population 1,500, is like many towns across central and southern Italy in that its main industry, agriculture, is both essential to modern society and nearly...

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Characterized by unspoiled landscapes guarded within no less than three national parks, one regional park, one marine protected area, plus 38 other nature reserves, Abruzzo presents itself as the ideal destination for lovers of all kinds of active and sustainable vacations, to be enjoyed year-round in the name of sport, adventure and fun. Thanks to...

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Italy is famous for its saints: don’t they say we are a people of saints, sailors and poets? When you think of it, medieval pilgrims were the first tourists, you could almost say they inaugurated the long, successful era of Italian tourism themselves! There are specific itineraries all along the peninsula that ancient and modern pilgrims follow: th...

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“The Charming Taste of Europe” is pleased to present a restaurant week in San Francisco, collaborating with a variety of restaurants from July 25th to July 31st. Throughout the week, reputable restaurants in the city will promote wines from the Consorzio Tutela Vini D’Abruzzo highlighting the quality of viticulture throughout the region. Wines incl...

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At 1,500 meter above sea level, the Castle of Rocca Calascio is the highest castle in the Apennines. The ruins seem to grow out of the rocky rise upon which the castle sits. The fortress attracts 100,000 tourists a year. The fortress and its position was all about the sheep and the wool trade. From Rocca Calascio one can peer down at the routes, th...

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Wide stretches of golden sand interspersed with cool pine forests and ancient watchtowers, pebbly coves, cliffs and romantic headlands overlooking the sea. Plus equipped lidos for lovers of amenities and services and free beaches to experience in contact with nature. Welcome to the Abruzzo waterfront, more than 130 kilometers of sandy shoreline cap...

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After a two-year, pandemic imposed, hiatus, the Board of Directors of the National Italian American Foundation recently resumed its annual mission to Italy in grand fashion. During the course of a nine-day trip between June 12th and June 21st the board visited both Abruzzo and Toscana, meeting the regions' political and civic leaders in order to fo...

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A few years ago, and quite by chance, I discovered the beauty and magic of Gran Sasso. Because of my interest in history, I decided to plan a trip to Campo Imperatore (“Emperor’s Field”), the great plateau located above Gran Sasso (Big Stone). In Campo Imperatore, there is an old hotel where Mussolini was once held prisoner, before being rescued by...

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A trabocco is a kind of shack on a pier that juts out from the beach into the waters of the Adriatic on the coast of Italy’s Abruzzo region. Festooned with poles and nets, it’s a machine for catching fish; an ancient technology said to be developed by the Phoenicians. Along what’s known as the Trabocchi Coast, stretching south from the aptly named...

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