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    Smart Guide Italy: Abruzzo & Molise: Smart Guide Italy, #14
    Smart Guide Italy: Abruzzo & Molise: Smart Guide Italy, #14
    Smart Guide Italy: Abruzzo & Molise: Smart Guide Italy, #14
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    Smart Guide Italy: Abruzzo & Molise: Smart Guide Italy, #14

    By Alexei Cohen

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    Smart Guide Italy is packed with advice and tips that will help newcomers and veteran travelers get the most from their visit to Italy. Along with background information to all major cities and monuments readers will discover great places to eat, sleep and enjoy the dolce vita.

    Smart Guide is an independent digital travel publisher that offers 25 guides to all of Italy's cities and regions. Each title in the series provides insights to the most important monuments and useful information for eating, drinking, and having a good time in Italy. Smart Guide also operates a convenient online accommodation service that allows travelers to enjoy local hospitality, lower their CO2 impact and save.

    Other titles in the series include:
    -Cities & Regions
    Rome & Lazio
    Florence & Tuscany
    Genova & Liguria
    Turin, Piedmont & Aosta
    Milan & Lombardy
    Trentino-Alto Adige
    Venice & Veneto
    Bologna & Emilia Romagna
    Le Marche
    Umbria
    Naples & Campania
    Puglia
    Basilicata & Clabria
    Sicily
    Sardinia

    -Multiple Regions
    Northern Italy
    Central Italy
    Southern Italy
    Italian Islands
    Italy

    -Cities
    Northern Italian Cities
    Central Italian Cities
    Southern Italian Cities
    Grand Tour: Rome, Florence, Venice & Naples

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexei Cohen
    Release dateMar 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301284955
    Smart Guide Italy: Abruzzo & Molise: Smart Guide Italy, #14
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    Alexei Cohen

    I fell in love with Italy while watching the movie La Strada in the basement of my university library. Since then I have met and married an Italian, written and edited several guides and enjoyed a lot of pasta, wine and gelato. I live with my family on the outskirts of Rome and cultivate my passion for Italy a little more everyday. Moon Rome, Florence & Venice is my latest book and a result of months of exploration. I look forward to sharing what I have discovered and meeting travelers in Rome to swap stories over a cappuccino.

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      Smart Guide Italy - Alexei Cohen

      Smart Guide Italy: Abuzzo & Molise

      Published by Smart Guides

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Smart Guide Italy

      Other titles in the Smart Guide Italy series:

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Smart Accommodation:

      Smart Guide has teamed up with over 5,000 bed & breakfasts, self-catering apartments and small hotels in order to provide travelers with convenient, reasonably priced accommodation in the best locations throughout Italy. To view all our accommodation options visit our website and choose the one that’s right for you. Enjoy the journey!

      Smart Answers:

      Travel requires making choices. If you have any questions regarding your trip to Italy write to us and we will get back to you within 24 hours. If you have any comments or suggestions that will help improve future editions we’d love to hear them.

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCING ABRUZZO AND MOLISE

      History

      TOP STOPS

      PLANNING

      L’AQUILA AND NORTHERN ABRUZZO

      L’Aquila

      Near L’Aquila

      Parco Nazionale Del Gran Sasso E Monti Della Laga

      Carsoli

      SULMONA AND SOUTHERN ABRUZZO

      Sulmona

      Scanno

      Pacentro

      Guardiagrele

      Parco Nazionale della Maiella

      Palena

      Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise

      PESCARA AND THE ABRUZZO COAST

      Pescara

      Chieti

      Lanciano

      MOLISE

      Isernia

      Volturno Valley

      Agnone

      Pietrabbondante

      Campobasso

      Saepinum

      Termoli and the Coast

      FOREWORD

      Abruzzo and Molise are not the first regions that come to mind when you think about Italy. They are remote, mountainous and do not cater to mass tourism. That’s what makes them perfect destinations for travelers who prefer to avoid the beaten track, enjoy nature and are looking to discover a lesser-known side of Italy. Both regions are sparsely populated and contain large tracts of national parkland with some of the most diverse animals and plants in Europe.

      Winter is a popular time to visit the area’s ski resorts, which are smaller and less luxurious than their northern counterparts but are good to practice the sport for a weekend or an entire week. Temperatures in spring and summer remain comfortable and the endless kilometers of hiking through spectacular scenery provide a wonderful break from the chaos of Italian cities. In fact there are very few large towns in either region, which makes visiting the historic centers and finding a table where you can taste the hearty local specialties easy.

      Travelers should note that the area is prone to earthquakes and the last major quake occurred less than five years ago. Many parts of Abruzzo were devastated including the capital of L’Aquila where some monuments are still undergoing renovation. That should’t stop you from going, visitors are actually quite welcome and provide locals with the moral and financial boost they need.

      If you haven’t already reserved a place to stay you may want to browse our accommodation options in Abruzzo and Molise. Smart Guide provides dozens of convenient bed & breakfast, farmhouse and small hotel offers throughout the regions. It’s a cozy and convenient way to meet locals, keep your carbon footprint

      low and save.

      Enjoy the journey!

      Alexei Cohen

      Series Editor

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      INTRODUCING ABRUZZO AND MOLISE

      Medieval towns, gourmet meals, ancient ruins, superb wines, monasteries, abbeys, sanctuaries, parks, tracks from former cattle drives, and master craftsmen are all waiting for visitors in Abruzzo and Molise.

      Both regions have roots steeped in ancient tradition. Abruzzo is home to a million year-old elephant and Europe’s oldest man (700,000 years old and counting) resides in Molise. They share a rich culture inherited from Italics, Oscans, Greeks, but most of all Samnites and Romans. The Italian expression for present-day Abruzzesi, inhabitants of Abruzzo, is forte e gentile (strong and kind). Centuries of hardscrabble existence have toughened them to caprices of nature and hardship, but left plenty of humanity. That description applies also to inhabitants of Molise, which until recently was part of Abruzzo.

      For more than 2,500 years, the Transhumance was a biannual event. Shepherds drove their flocks across the vast cattle tracks toward Puglia and back, a journey that took them south toward the coast and kept them away from home for six or seven months a year. Husband and wife even spoke different dialects—he the sing-songy coastal dialect and she the clipped mountain dialect. Only the 20th century altered those ways, when emigration, falling wool prices, other transportation options, and more land development brought the tradition to an end. You can still see signs and follow the vast cattle tracks throughout Abruzzo and Molise.

      Abruzzo attracts more tourists than Molise and has better tourist facilities and accommodations. Both offer outstanding scenery, food, wine, and a rewarding visit. Many traditions that are disappearing or already gone in other parts of Italy are still firmly entrenched here. Part of the reason is infrastructure. Most of the highways were not completed until the 1970s or ’80s, which kept the regions in relative isolation until recently. In Termoli and San Vito you can still find trabucco, the spindly wooden piers from where fishermen cast their nets and scoop up their catch. Bronze bells are molded and cast in Agnone much as they have been for the last 700 years.

      Roughly a third of Abruzzo’s land is dedicated to national parks. Its mountains are more dramatic than those of surrounding regions, making it Central Italy’s favorite ski destination—where the focus is on fun and not fashion. It’s ideal for active vacations as well as being a great place to unwind away from the crowds.

      Art buffs will find plenty to admire in the small towns. You can discover artists like 19th century painter Michetti or contemporary artists whose works are beautifully displayed in local exhibits or even

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