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Abruzzo is a region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km and a population of 1.2 million. It is divided into four provinces: L'Aquila, Teramo, Pescara, and Chieti. Its western border lies 80 km (50 mi) east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Geographically, Abruzzo is divided into a mountainous area in the west, which includes the Gran Sasso d'Italia, and a coastal area in the east with beaches on the Adriatic Sea.
The Province of Teramo is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Teramo. The province has an area of 1,948 square kilometres (752 sq mi), a population of 313,029 (2012), and is subdivided into 47 comunes, see Comunes of the Province of Teramo. The Province of Teramo shares its northern border with the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Marche Region, southern and southwestern borders with the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo Region, and a western border with the Province of Rieti in the Region of Lazio. To the south is the Abruzzo Province of Pescara and to the east is the Adriatic Sea.
Castel del Monte is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the province of L'Aquila in northern Abruzzo, Italy. Located in the heart of the Gran Sasso mountain range, the town is set into a steep hillside nestled beneath mountain peaks near the high plain of Campo Imperatore. Castel del Monte sits opposite the ancient mountaintop fortress of Rocca Calascio and faces Monte Sirente in the distance. It is located in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park.
Castiglione Messer Raimondo is a town and comune in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, central Italy.
The Gran Sasso Tunnel is part of the A24 Motorway that links Rome and the Adriatic Sea via L'Aquila and Teramo, through the Apennine Mountains via the Gran Sasso in Abruzzo.
Campo Imperatore is a mountain grassland or alpine meadow formed by a high basin shaped plateau located above Gran Sasso massif, the largest plateau of Apennine ridge. Known as "Little Tibet", it is located in Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, near L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy.
The Grand Highway of the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park is located in the Abruzzo Region of east−central Italy.
The Autostrada A24 or “Parks Motorway”, is a highway connecting Rome to the Adriatic Sea. Starting from GRA and ending to Teramo, the A24 create a new historical linkage between Rome and the insidious apennine mountains, alongside long-time roads Salaria, Flaminia and Tiburtina Valeria.
Mariastella Gelmini is an Italian politician and attorney. She served as Italian Minister of Education in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet until November 16, 2011.
The Pescara Pass is a mountain pass through the Abruzzi Apennines along the Pescara River. It lies south of Gran Sasso d'Italia, Italy.
The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) project was a physics project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The aim of the project was to analyse the hypothesis of neutrino oscillation by directing a beam of neutrinos from CERN's facilities to the detector of the OPERA experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), located in the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy. The CNGS facility was housed in a tunnel which diverged from one of the SPS–LHC transfer tunnels, at the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It used the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator as a source of high-energy protons.
Sasso means stone in Italian. Notable people with the surname include:
The Mavone is a river in Italy. It is located in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. The river is the main tributary of the Vomano. Its source is in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park near Corno Grande. The river flows northeast near Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia and Colledara before joining the Vomano near Basciano.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
Assergi is a frazione of the comune of L'Aquila, located about 11 km from the capital. With a population of just over 500, it is situated at an altitude of approximately 1,000 meters, below the western slope of the Gran Sasso in a small plain called the Piana di Assergi (Plain of Assergi). Assergi was formerly included in the comune of Camarda, which is directly to its south.
