Abruzzo's online holiday companion & travel guide to Italy's Rocky Heart

Your Online Abruzzo Holiday Companion & travel guide to Italy's Rocky Heart

Roseto degli Abruzzi – a low-rise chilled Abruzzo Beach

Ain’t no doubt about it, Teramo province’s sandy beaches especially Roseto degli Abruzzi put the tourist traps of Montesilvano & Francovilla further south to shame.

Tossicia’s Greatest Church & Restaurant

Tossicia’s tiny antique church of S.Antonio Abate (St Anthony Abbot) may be small but it is like stumbling upon a chest of hidden treasure when you visit. Its beauty

Peperoncino, Abruzzo’s Fiery Protagonist

If you love a holiday of colour and the wake up zing of chillies in your food, September is the time to holiday in Abruzzo. This is the time that the local red diavolini

Editor's Pick
Walking Cesacastina’s Valley of 100 Waterfalls
Cesacastina is a small village situated in Teramo’s Gran Sasso & Monti della Laga National Park tucked under its nearest peak of C.le d. Pietra that rises up 1683 masl. San Pietro & San Paolo is Cesacastina’s beautiful little sandstone church with tre Campanille and it makes the perfect spot to leave the car, grab a macchiato in the friendly local bar and then begin walking in the Gran Sasso Mountains
- Restaurant Locanda del Cervo - fine food up high
- Abruzzo’s Autumn Walking Colours via La Mascionara
- Parklife in Abruzzo

Inside Review
- Osteria dei Cantautori - a Great Little Atri Restaurant
- Located on the via Probi in Atri, the Osteria dei Cantautori was an excellent, intimate lunchtime restaurant find after a visit to the Atri Cathedral and the C12th benedictine cloister hosting the Museo Capitolare. The restaurant is attractively laid out, spacious & light
- Osteria degli Ulivi, Montorio Al Vomano
- Restaurant Locanda del Cervo - fine food up high
- Ristorante il Mandrone, San Pietro, Teramo

Most Popular Article
- Trebbiano d’Abruzzo by Emidio Pepe - a fine wine enjoyed by the G8
- For many, imagining that a Trebbiano d’Abruzzo could be the table wine of choice at a G8 Summit would be inconceivable. However, this summer’s Tokyo G8 saw bottles of Trebbiano d’Abruzzo from the vineyard of Emidio Pepe, Abruzzo’s quirkiest but finest organic producer of Trebbiano & Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
- Pecorino, a Fragrant White Wine by Abruzzo’s Cerulli
- Snow & Wine Guelfi Style
- Abruzzo Holidays - by its new Ambassador

All about Abruzzo in a cherry picked fashion! This independent travel & holiday guide to Abruzzo is written from the magnificent Abruzzo Gran Sasso Mountains and grows daily. Each of our reviews provide advice on where to stay in Abruzzo, what to do in Abruzzo & where to eat… an Abruzzo agriturismo or restaurant and which one? We write only after we have visited. What we haven’t seen in Abruzzo & or cannot personally recommend we simply don’t list.

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