Itineraries
Itineraries
The National Park and the Majella
The National Park of the Gran Sasso and of the Mountains of the Laga, with his 150 thousand hectares of ground, embraces 44 Towns, 3 Regions, 2 different and imposing Mountain-Chains, welcome a variagate flora of evergreen trees, endless expanses of beech trees, white firs, cerri and chestnut trees, woods populated by a proliferating fauna of wolves and chamois, skies ploughed by wandering hawks and royal eagles.
An ancestral landscape, reing of everlasting snows and great and loud falls, glaciers, imposing cliffs and sweet streams, studded of fortified villages and of rustic cottages in which the tradition and the time stop to memory of customs, in which the wild nature embraces the work of man in playful and revential harmony.
The green heart of Italy embraces three great Mountain-Groups, the Gran Sasso, from which polls the Great Horn with its height of2912 mt., the Mountains of the Laga and the Gemini Mountains, hosts the Calderone, the most southern glacier of Europe and the artificial lake of Campotosto.
Heaven for trecking and horse-trecking lovers, variegated meeting place for the wine and food lovers, the National Park of the Abruzzi is the cradle of fine craftsmanship-works, typical-products of undisputed quality as the Pecorino of Farindola, the Mortadellina of Campotosto, the Chestnuts of the Laga, the Lentils of St. Stephen.
Easily attainable both from the Tirreno-Coast that from the Adriatic coast through the respective highways among them connected by Highway of the Parks, that from Rome reaches Aquila and then Teramo through the tunnel of the Gran Sasso - A24 -, or with the street for Pescara - A25 - to access the park from the South- East side. The slopes of Lazio and Marche are attainable crossing the street Salaria.
The National Park of the Majella, set in 1991, stands on a surface of 74.095 hectares in the green heart of the Abruzzo, on a predominantly mountainous ground, and includes 3 Provinces, 6 Climb-Groups and 39 Towns.









