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Winter
Tourism
During
the winter, the Abruzzo mountains offer to the keen
snow-lovers numerous possibilities for downhill,
cross-country, and alpine sluing, and, the latest
passion of the youngsters, the snowboard. Winter
tourism has changed radically the life of the many
towns that realized the need to change and have made
"snow" their enterprise. The highest number of
winter resorts can be found in the L'Aquila
province, but the Teramo side of
Gran Sasso and the
Majella also offer a good level of
facilities. There are 22 winter resorts and a few
words on each one of these is necessary. |
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Winter Tourism
On Gran
Sasso, there is Campo Imperatore
with
 its
hotel, now completely renovated, where Benito
Mussolini was imprisoned in 1943. There is a modem
funicular, 4 ski lifts and 8 ski runs. At the foot
of the funicular, there are three hotels and a
campsite, at a distance of only 18 km from
L'Aquila with its history and
facilities. Staying with Gran Sasso we can find the
Monte Cristo facility with a two-seater chairlift
and 10 ski runs. |
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Winter Tourism
The Abruzzo skiing resorts
 Moving
to the Majella, at
Campo di Giove
there is
a cableway, 3 skilifts and 6
ski runs, with a skiing school,
hotels and guesthouses. Passo
San Leonardo is not far from
Campo di Giove and has 2 ski
lifts, 6 ski runs and a hotel.
On the sea side of the Majella,
where you can ski looking over
the Adriatic, there is the
Passo
Lanciano-Majelletta
resort, less than an hour by car
from
Chieti and
Pescara, which
offers 9 skilifts, 10 ski runs,
a good skiing school, 5 hotels
and a CM refuge. The
Ovindoli-Magnola
facilities can be found on the
Sirente-Velino, with
their 2 chair lifts, 6 skilifts
and 14 ski runs. Here there are
prepared circuits for cross
country skiing, and, of course,
a good skiing school. The hotel
accommodation is good, as are
the numerous residential hotels,
private flats, the nightclubs
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The Abruzzo
skiing
resorts
 Finally,
on the
border
between
Abruzzo and
Lazio, there
are the
skiing
facilities
of
Marsia
at the foot
of
Monte Midia
(one chair
lift, 2
skilifts, 6
ski runs)
with a
skiing
school, a
hotel and a
campsite,
and those of
Cappadocia
Camporotondo
with its 2
ski-lifts, 5
ski runs and
2 circuits
for cross
country
skiing.
However, the
most
important
skiing
facilities
of the
region are
found in the
National
Park of
Abruzzo
area, in the
'triangle"
of
Roccaraso
-
Rivisondoli
-
Pescocostanzo.
In the
National
Park of
Abruzzo
there is the
elegant
Pescasseroli,
seat of the
head offices
of the Park,
the Natural
History
Museum and
birthplace
of Benedetto
Croce.
It also
boasts 2
chair lifts,
9 ski runs,
a skiing
school, 13
hotels, and
a campsite,
all of which
is connected
and
associated
to both the
Alto Sangro
Ski-pass
Association
and the
Incoming
Abruzzo
accommodation
association.
Not far off,
Opi, in
the locality
of
Macchiarvana
offers for
cross
country
skiing
lovers, 5
prepared
circuits, a
school and a
hotel. |
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The Abruzzo
skiing
resorts
 On
the lake of
Scanno there
are Monte
Rotondo
and
Passo Godi
with their
chair and
ski lifts, a
skiing
school, 18
hotels and a
campsite.
Not far from
the borders
of the
National
Park of
Abruzzo,
it is
possible to
ski at the
Comprensorio
dell'Alto
Sangro,
the biggest
skiing
centre in
the whole of
the
central-southern
Italy, and
the seventh
territory at
a national
level.
Spread over
the communes
of
Roccaraso,
with its
elegant
boutiques
and sports
facilities,
Rivisondoli,
famous for
its renowned
Live
Christmas
Crib,
Pescocostanzo,
a town with
an
exceptional
patrimony of
renaissance
and baroque
monuments,
the
territory is
under the
total
management
of the Alto
Sangro
Ski-pass
Association.
It works
with the
newest
facilities,
the most
modem in
Europe,
thanks to
which it is
possible to
serve
numerous
downhill ski
runs with
any possible
requirement,
from the
beginners'
runs to
those on
which the
1994
Italian
Absolute
Championships
were held. |
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