Italy’s May Poppy Riot in Abruzzo
It’s rare when the most common is everyone’s favourite, but this is the case with poppies in Abruzzo, Italy even when facing stiff competition from orchids
Our pick of some of the many wonderful walks and bicycle rides across all of Abruzzo’s 4 provinces. Abruzzo’s abundant wildlife flourishes, no doubt due to the fact that 1/3 of the habitat is protected parkland – ‘Abruzzo is Europe’s biggest park’.
It’s rare when the most common is everyone’s favourite, but this is the case with poppies in Abruzzo, Italy even when facing stiff competition from orchids

The Abruzzo ski-resort of Prato Selva in the Province of Teramo, sits in the Gran Sasso Mountains just under Monte Corvo which rises up behind at 2523 masl

Walking the heart of Abruzzo has to involve the Corno Grande Mountain at some point; that effortlessly wears its craggy 2-million-year lifetime without vanity

A must for visitors to Abruzzo is Campo Imperatore in the Gran Sasso National Park, partly famous as Abruzzo’s largest & highest Alpine meadow





