A beautiful location to celebrate San Martino is the ‘I Borghi più Belli d’Italia’ village of Pietracamela sits under Prati di Tivo. The village’s excellent restaurants have come together to create a polenta feast, wine and roasted chestnuts for just €10.
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.
The Abruzzo town of Pietracamela en route to ever-popular resort Prati di Tivo, is renowned for its summer hikes, particularly good is one down to
Cerqueto provided us with an outstanding opportunity to briefly access the true festive spirit, thanks to its awe-inspiring “living nativity”
If you’re out walking in or around the woods or nearby lakes that surround Nerito di Crognaleto head to the family-run restaurant La Rocchetta for lunch
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
Prati di Tivo is our closest ski resort, open between December and April it is just a 40-minute drive away from our house in Abruzzo
En route to ski resort Prati di Tivo is another of the wonderful hill-side medieval towns that Abruzzo does so well – Pietracamela