Abruzzo’s isolated and silent hilltop churches, cathedrals and monasteries share a common heritage of Benedictine Monks developing both their internal & external decorative arts throughout the Romanesque Period.
The small Chieti town of San Giovanni Teatino’s re-enactment of the rites associated with their patron saint, John the Baptist, foraging for wild herbs and flowers to make the elixir, L'Acqua di San Giovanni illustrates perfectly one of the more colourful ways to learn about Abruzzo and a particular community
There is a small but wonderful multimedia exhibition in Rome running from May through to August that chronicles the communities of the mountain villages that sit on Teramo's Gran Sasso range and encircle Cerqueto di Fano Adriano recorded by Don Nicola Jobbi.
Many people will be adding the figurine of a shepherd zampognaro (bagpiper) to their Nativity scenes this Christmas with little knowledge of their importance throughout the centuries of the shepherd bagpipers of Abruzzo
Have you ever wondered where the symbol for the humanitarian organisation, The Red Cross came from, did you know of its relationship to Abruzzo?
