Parco Regionale
Parco Regionale in Abruzzo
4 towns
Abruzzo holds 4 Parco Regionale sites inside our catalogue. All sit in the province of L'Aquila.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Ovindoli, Pescina, and Castelvecchio Subequo. 1 more town carries the mark alongside them.
The towns
Ovindoli
Province: L'Aquila · 1,375 m
At 1,375 meters on the Altopiano delle Rocche, the closest serious ski station to Rome, working since 1959 on the slopes of Monte Magnola.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila · 735 m
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.
Castelvecchio Subequo
Province: L'Aquila · 409 m
At 409 meters in the Subequana valley, the Roman Superaequum and Franciscan station where the saint himself was given land for a convent built between 1221 and 1261.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila · 720 m
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Peschici
Province: Foggia
A Gargano cliff-top village above the Adriatic, white houses spilling toward the sea and trabucchi on the headlands.
Gangi
Province: Palermo
A Madonie hill town stacked in concentric rings at 1,011 meters, RAI's Borgo dei Borghi 2014 and one of the first Sicilian towns to offer one-euro houses.
San Giovanni in Fiore
Province: Cosenza
The capital of the Sila Grande at 1,049 meters, Italy's most populated commune above a thousand.
Brunico
Province: Bolzano
The largest town of the Pustertal at 838 meters, built around the prince-bishop's castle and the Stadtgasse, with Plan de Corones rising above the valley.
Pontremoli
Province: Massa-Carrara
The capital of Lunigiana at the confluence of the Magra and Verde, holding the prehistoric stele statues and the oldest book prize in Italy.