Hopscotching hilltop Abruzzo villages & towns is never dull
Our 24-hour guide to Penne is written by local Dianne Drew, who runs the boutique-style b&b and guestroom rental, ‘Terracielo Ramona‘ with incredible terrace vistas of Penne. She is part of the local arts co-operative and can guide you on some of the fantastic artisans to pay a visit to.
The evocative Castello della Monica is a fascinating Abruzzo folly located in an upper leafy part of Teramo
Casale San Nicola (TE) is one of those secret Abruzzesi villages that you stumble upon and then can’t wait to make a return visit. It’s a picturesque mountain village that should be on everybody’s Abruzzo ‘bucket list’, particularly for those that like an easy ramble, view some fantastic art and for those on a budget...
Escher in Abruzzo - a handy trail of the lithographs and a map of the hilltop towns & mountain villages that Escher depicted in his famous hypnotic, geometrically impossible architectural inventions
