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L'Aquila Province

A province of the Abruzzo: 5,034 square kilometers. 2003 population: 298,000. Capital: L'Aquila.

[Seen from a dozen meters above it, a small church with a belfry, a semi-attached house and their vegetable garden. It is a view of an unidentified church in L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo (central Italy).]

One of the humbler churches on the outskirts of L'Aquila, the capital city.

The autonomous region of Abruzzo (also: the Abruzzi) is divided into 4 provinces, three of which are coastal. The coastless province of L'Aquila to the west includes the region's highest mountains.

[ 11/28/17: 3 pages, 19 photos ]

The provincial capital of L'Aquila is, for Italy, quite cold in the winter; but in the summer, when so much of the country is scorching, it's a wonderful refuge, in which I once spent a day. Among the sights are a powerful 14c citadel; the very beautiful pilgrimage church of S. Maria di Collemaggio, where Pope Celestine II is buried; and the rather extravagant 99‑spouted medieval fountain of which you see a bit here.

[ 4 pages, 4 engravings, 24 photos, 4 maps ]

Roman Remains at Carsioli: not a first-hand resource of my own, but the two gentlemen on the left visited the site in the early 20c. George Pfeiffer and Thomas Ashby's report, published in 1905 in the Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, is the first detailed modern article on the old Roman town.

Other Material (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911)

Alba Fucens (near Avezzano)

— but other than my day in the capital city, I don't know the Abruzzo at all: you will therefore find yourself using offsite resources.

For the province as a whole, see the sites listed in the navigation bar below. They also have pages on many individual towns, of course.
Also, in the course of roaming the Web, I've happened to find some pages for specific places I've never been to; I've collected them here. This list is almost random, by no means comprehensive:

Acciano • Aielli • Alfedena • Avezzano • Celano • Pescina • Raiano • Roccapreturo

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