Towns & Villages

There are so many places in Abruzzo worthy of a visit but you won’t read about them in the guide books. Yesterday I discovered Fano Adriano!

With its fairytale views the super friendly Poggio Umbricchio is the Abruzzo town to snuffle out & sample the rare king of truffles, Autumn’s White Truffle

How to spend 24 hours in 24 Hours in Pescasseroli, capital town to Italy’s first and oldest national park & described by its most famous son and philosopher Benedetto Croce as being a place of fables and dreams

In Tagliacozzo you will see enough to fire your imagination, and if you have the time you can commence on a walk that will take you backwards through history

“Chi si fa pecorella, i lupi la mangiano”. Make yourself a sheep and the…

Fontecchio has a scrummy host of adjectives that can be associated with it which is why it’s high in my Top 5 of un-missable medieval Abruzzo towns to visit

It’s not often that you can rave about a motorway with a view, but Abruzzo’s autostrada A24 that leads from Teramo to Rome is a special road with enchanting views

Picturesque Civita D’Antino – commanding views of the Simbruini & Ernici mountains, cool temperatures, great wine & once home to a Scandinavian painting school

Ortona has a historical reputation of being fought for and bought; its recent oil fight was one of the reasons we visited this small Abruzzo port town in Chieti

Immortalised by such renowned photographers as Henri Cartier Bresson & Mario Giacomelli, Scanno is Abruzzo’s cultural hot-spot

En route to ski resort Prati di Tivo is another of the wonderful hill-side medieval towns that Abruzzo does so well – Pietracamela

Our June Abruzzo roadtrip from Bascianella to Aragno was one of those experiences when the journey is better than the destination

An experience not to be missed by anyone visiting Abruzzo has to be the amazing village Santo Stefano di Sessanio on the edge of the Campo Imperatore plain