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Archaeological sites

Castel Manfrino

Castel Manfrino

  The ancient “Castrum Maccle”, an authentic jewel of mediaeval military architecture, lies in one of the most fascinating and “mysterious” sites within ...

Castrum Novum

  Pierced spherical fictile weights found within the territory of Giulianova testify that it had been inhabited ever since the Neolithic. However the ...

Castrum Truentinum

 Story In Roman times, Truentum, the ancient Martinsicuro was an important harbour of the southern Picenum and as such represented a crucial junction ...

The “megalithic walls”

Colle del Vento

  The Italic settlement of Colle del Vento stretches over about 1200 sqm. within the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga . The archaeological ...

Cortino-Pagliaroli

  Testimonies of the Roman Ages have been dug up within the entire territory of this small municipality of the Monti della Laga. Particularly relevant ...

The Cave of Sant'Angelo

Grotta Sant'Angelo

The Cave of Sant’Angelo counts among one of the most interesting rupestrian cavities of the Italian prehistory. Not far from the splendid fortress-town of Civitella ...

Ripoli

  This neolithic village counts among the most famous of the Italian Prehistory and owes its renown to the flourishing processing of stone and ceramics ...

San Rusticus - Basciano

  The territory of Basciano has been inhabited ever since Bronze and Iron Age; for this reason a series of excavations have been conducted on it since ...

Tomb

The Necropolis of Campovalano

  Since the 70's, excavations have been conducted within the large area of the proto-historical necropolis situated on a river terrace. It includes ...

Tortoreto

  The rests of burials and villages dug up as from the 19 th century testify that the territory of Tortoreto was probably inhabited ever since the 5 ...

Churches

S. Maria di Propezzano

Abbey of Saint Mary of Propezzano

The building compound of Saint Mary of Propezzano was erected on the very spot where, according to the tradition, the Madonna appeared in 715. Since then and ...

San Clemente

Abbey of St Clement al Vomano

After a long period of restoration works, the abbey reopened to the public in 2008. According to many, there is a relation between the Abbey of St Clement al ...

San Giovanni ad Insulam

Abbey of St John ad Insulam

The Abbey of St John ad Insulam is located in the deep countryside of the Sicilian Valley, at the foot of the Gran Sasso peaks. Its edifice is considered one ...

Abbazia di Montesanto

Abbey of St Mary in Montesanto

St Mary’s Abbey is on the quiet hill of Montesanto, in the deep tranquil atmosphere set by the vicinity of the hills of Teramo. It is among the most suggestive ...

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption – Atri

  The cathedral of Atri is one of the most important examples of Romanesque style in Abruzzo. Consecrated in 1223 it was rebuilt between the 13 th and ...

Church and ex Franciscan Convent

Both edifices were built in the 17 th century on the hill overlooking the village. In the past the church and the convent lodged the State Institute of Art ‘F.A. ...

La Madonna della Tibia

Church of Madonna della Tibia

It is a small church built on a rocky spur with an impressive backdrop. At its interior it presents a gilt, painted wooden altar in Baroque-style of late 17 th ...

Church of Madonna of Mercy

The church already existing in 1153 used to be a monastery of Benedictine Sisters known as Church of St Angelo of the Women. In 1448, Pope Eugenio IV gave ...

Chiesa di San Giovanni

Church of Saint John the Baptist – Atri

This church also known as St Domenico’s Church was built in 1322 and then largely changed during the 16 th and the 18 th century. The lower part of its façade ...

Santa Maria in Platea

Church of Saint Mary in Platea

The Church of Saint Mary in Platea is in Piazza Farnese, Campli’s main square. It was built in the late 14 th century on the ruins of an older building. Already ...

La Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate

Church of St Anthony Abbot

It is a rural small fifteenth-century church to be found in the upper part of the village. It presents only one nave covered with a wood-trussed roof and no apse. ...

Church of St John the Baptist

This is a well-known Gothic-style church of the 15 th century, erected just outside Campli’s historic centre, close to the fourteenth- century Porta Angioina, ...

Statua ligena (XIII secolo)

Church of St John the Baptist

The Parish of Saint John the Baptist of the 17 th century is located in the main square of the village. A Renaissance portal stands out from the façade. The ...

La Chiesa di Santa Maria a Vico

Church of St Mary a Vico

The Church of St Mary a Vico near Sant’Omero was built on the remains of a pagan temple dedicated to Hercules. It is thought to be the only Abruzzo’s monument ...

Santa Maria di Ronzano

Church of St Mary di Ronzano

This isolated church in the Valley of the Mavone River is one of most characteristic monuments of the Middle Ages in Abruzzo. Almost certainly, it was built in ...

Church of St Mary of the Angels

The church is better known as ‘Scopa’, a name taken from the broom that the Confraternity of the Angels (or Laudi) used for self-flagellation. The tradition ...

La Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli

Church of St Mary of the Angels

The Parish of St Mary of the Angels is in Vittorio Emanuele Square, right in the historic centre of the village. According to the legend, the church was founded ...

Chiostro della Chiesa degli Zoccolanti

Church of the ‘Zoccolanti’

The inhabitants of Montorio called their church ‘Zoccolanti’ after the noise produced by the Observant Minor Friars who wore wooden clogs during processions. ...

Convent and Shrine of St Mary of Lumi – Civitella del Tronto

  The Convent and Shrine of St Mary of Lumi is at the entrance of Civitella del Tronto. It was first erected in the 16 th century (its foundation attributed ...

Convent and Shrine of St Mary of Lumi

The Convent and Shrine of St Mary of Lumi is at the entrance of Civitella del Tronto. It was first erected in the 16 th century (its foundation attributed to ...

Convento dei Cappuccini

Convent of the Capuchin monks – Montorio al Vomano

Diomede Carafa, count of Montorio, built the Convent of the Capuchin monks in 1576, however it was consecrated only in 1621 and dedicated to Saint Mary's Health. ...

Chiesa dei Ss. Pietro e Paolo

Saints Peter and Paul’s Church

The Parish of Fano Adriano was erected in 1355 on the ruins of an ancient Roman temple. It features elegant forms of the sixteenth century. The portal looks impressive ...

La Scala Santa

Shrine of Holy Stairs – Campli

In 1772, Pope Clement XIV acknowledged to the town of Campli the supreme ownership of the Holy Stairs. The Holy Stairs is by St Paul’s Church and made of 28 ...

Il Santuario della Madonna della Laga

Shrine of Madonna della Laga

The church is at the entrance of the tiny and suggestive mountainous village of Padula, at almost 1,000 meters. It was erected in the 15 th century and restored ...

Shrine of Madonna of Holy Saturday (part of Saint Agnes’ Church)

St Agnes’ Parish was once of modest dimensions; it was built on top of Roman ancient building vestiges, although documents date it back to 1227. Its present ...

Il Santuario della Madonna dello Splendore

Shrine of Madonna of Splendour

  The apparition of the Virgin Mary   The legend tells that on the 22 nd of April of 1557 a farmer called Bertolino, saw a dazzling light ...

La vecchia Basilica

Shrine of Saint Gabriele dell’Addolorata – Isola del Gran Sasso

The Shrine of San Gabriele is a place of popular worship, one of the top 15 shrines most visited in the world. This is thanks to the two million pilgrims who ...

Shrine of St Mary of the Angels – Mosciano Sant’Angelo

    The church was erected in the small hamlet of Convento, near Mosciano Sant’Angelo. It was dedicated to Saint Felicity’s sons, known as the ...

St Anne's Church

St Anne’s Church - Teramo

St Anne’s Church is what is left of the old cathedral of Teramo, which was dedicated to Saint Mary Aprutensis. It was built on the ruins of a Roman domus (house) ...

St Anthony’s Church – Teramo

  St Anthony’s Church, previously of Saint Francis, was built in 1227. A hundred years later it was largely developed and restored. Initially there was ...

St Anthony’s Church– Montorio al Vomano

Although the church’s groundwork is unknown, it is believed it was built before the Order of Friars Minor (i.e. before ‘500). It was first dedicated to Saint ...

St Augustine's Church – Atri

  The church was first erected in the early 14 th century and dedicated to Saint Augustine. In 1363 it was rebuilt and called Saints Giacomo and Catherine ...

St Augustine’s Church

Church and convent of Saint Augustine were built in 1326 on the spot of a previous sacred building dedicated to Saint James. The church had an attached cloister ...

La facciata di Piazza Martiri

St Berard’s Church

The  Cathedral of Teramo (dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary) – also known as the ‘Duomo’ – begun in 1158 with Bishop Guido ...

St Clare’s Church

The church erected in the 13 th century and refurbished in the 16 th century was realized thanks to its benefactor Giosua I of Acquaviva. A classic fifteenth-century ...

St Domenico’s Church – Teramo

    This church is located in the very historic centre of Teramo and many believe it is the most beautiful of the town. It was built around the ...

Il soffitto maiolicato

St Donato’s Church

The small rural church of St Donato is one kilometre away from Castelli. It was erected on the spot of an agrestic chapel of the late 15 th century. Its fame ...

St Flaviano’s Dome – Giulianova

The dome rises in the historical centre of Giulianova old town. Its building started the decade between 1472 and 1481, along with those of the most important ...

St Francis Church

St Francis Church is the oldest religious building in Campli, built in the 14 th century right in the historic centre of the town. It presents the unmistakable ...

Chiesa di San Francesco - Particolare

St Francis’ Church

This church along Corso Adriano (high street) was built around 1230 perhaps thanks to Saint Friar Filippo Longo of Atri. He was Saint Francis’ seventh friar brother. ...

Chiesa di San Francesco

St Francis’ Church

The church was founded first in the 14 th century when Roberto d’Angió was reining. It still presents part of the ancient wall with its regular recurring motifs ...

St Joseph’s Church – Teramo

The façade of Saint Joseph’s Church was entirely compromised over the years. Although today it is closed to the public and available only for special catholic ...

St Leucio’s Church

St Leucio’s Church, the patron of Pietracamela, is at the entrance of the village. Its origin dates back to the Middle Ages. Inside there are Baroque altars, ...

St Liberator’s Church – Atri

Around 1935 the church underwent refurbishing works to honour Atri’s fallen soldiers. High up on the stonework façade an inscription says ‘In Deo vivunt pro patria ...

St Lorenzo’s Church

The parish dedicated to the patron Saint Lorenzo Martyr was built in a spot known today as Largo Vinciguerra. In 1557 it became a rampart during the attacks of ...

St Lucas Church – Teramo

The small church, today restored and opened to the public, was first mentioned in 1372 as the house of Roberto di Melatino. Still fixed above the door’s lintel ...

La Chiesa di San Martino

St Martin’s Church

In 1188 The Papal bull of Clement III referred to St Martin’s Church as ‘ad Gaglianum’. Although the building underwent drastic renovation works over the 19 th ...

St Nicola’s Church

First founded in the 11 th century and rebuilt in 1256, St Nicola’s Church was converted several times over the centuries. The portal stands out from the ...

St Peter’s Church

The small country church is to be found around Campovalano’s plain, nearby the ruins of a Benedictine convent. Founded in the 8 th century it was rebuilt ...

St Reparata’s Church

St Reparata’s Church is a beautiful example of neoclassic-style in architecture. It was dedicated to the patroness saint and attached to the cathedral , on the ...

St Rocco’s Church – Montorio al Vomano

  St Rocco’s Church is in Piazza Orsini, the main square of Montorio. Its façade is a composition of two distinct elements, which come together lightly ...

Statua Madonna della Provvicenza

St Sinforosa’s Church

The Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption - Saint Sinforosa - is a church of the first half of 1400. It has two beautiful small portals by Nicola da Penne (15 ...

Chiesa di San Vito

St Vito’s Church

St Vito’s Church, historically dependent upon the Abbey of Farfa, was built by the Benedictines in the 12 th century. It presents the typical ground plan – i.e. ...

Museums

Room 1 - Inner door

"F. Savini" Archaeological Civic Museum of Teramo

The Museum is the main seat of the entire net of museums of Teramo. As such it is connected to the various archaeological sites (the Roman theatre, the amphitheatre, ...

Logo

Archaeological Museum of Atri

The Museum has been set up inside a complex of 17 th -century buildings belonging to the Co-cathedral Chapter of Atri and restored with the help of the Minister ...

Il Torrione

Archaeological Museum Torrione “Il Bianco”

Among all the towers remaining from the ancient defensive walls, which Giuliantonio Acquaviva had built around the town during the Renaissance, the Torrione “Il ...

Map of the Museum

Archive Museum Antonio Di Jorio

Set up inside the elegant reception room of the Theatre of Atri, this archive includes five hundred handwritten works by the Master Antonio Di Jorio of Atessa ...

Exhibition rooms

Capitular Museum of Atri

The Museum has been set up on the second corridor of a 13 th -century Benedictine cloister, which had already been equipped in the 15 th century as residence ...

Antiquarium Castrum Truentinum

Castrum Truentinum Antiquarium

The Antiquarium is set up inside the Torre Carlo V tower. This exhibition gathers the archaeological testimonies found during a long series of excavations lead ...

Museo delle Ceramiche di Castelli

Ceramics Museum of Castelli

  The museum is set up inside the Franciscan Convent of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli and gathers numerous works ranging from the late Middle Ages to modern ...

Museo Civico Etnografico

Civic and Ethnographic Museum of Atri

  The exhibition is made of over 2000 items and includes testimonies of the agro-pastoral culture ranging from the beginnings of industrialization to ...

Civica Raccolta d'Arte

Civic Art Collection of Roseto

Inaugurated in 1981, the collection is set up on the ground floor of the 19 th -century Palace of the Villa Comunale of Roseto. It consists of the works of the ...

Museo didattico degli strumenti musicali medioevali e rinascimentali

Didactic Museum of Mediaeval and Renaissance musical instruments

The Museum was inaugurated in 2000 and is made of four rooms where 54 reconstructions of period instruments ranging from the 8 th to the late 16 th century are ...

un particolare del presepe

Ethnographic Museum of the Laga People

The exhibition has been organized into two main sections. The first one hosts the ethnographic Crib equipped with animated miniature models (on a 1:5 scale) that ...

Museo Etnologico

Ethnological Museum of Teramo

The items displayed within the museum are divided into the following categories:   rural daily life agricultural and shepherding occupations ...

Roman gradual (Graduale Romanum)

Historical Leather Museum

This museum offers a wonderful opportunity to travel through time and discover the exciting evolution of the art and fashion of the last two centuries. The historical ...

Liceo Musicale Braga di Giulianova

House-Museum of Gaetano Braga

It was built in the second half of the 19 th century by the illustrious cellist and composer native of Giulianova Gaetano Braga (Giulianova, 1829-Milan, 1907) ...

Raccolta Internazionale d'Arte Ceramica Contemporanea

International Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Arts

It was created in 1986 in occasion of the 80 th anniversary of the foundation of the Art Institute; The collection was then gradually enriched by the creations ...

esposizione di nodi marinari

Marine Museum

  The Museum was created in 1998, it is curated by the “Colligere” Association, and the 150 m 2 exhibition consists mostly of materials donated by the ...

Smielatore - Sala 2

Museum of agricultural civilization, art and popular traditions - Morro d'Oro

Situated in the ancient Palazzo De Gregoriis, the museum has on show about three hundred objects, a witness to almost more than two centuries of agricultural  ...

Museum of Alpinism

The Permanent Exhibition on Alpinism is set up inside the Centro Visite del Parco del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga. The fascinating story of this discipline ...

Astronomical Observatory

Museum of Astronomy of the Astronomical observatory of Collunaria

The museum is set up inside the astronomical observatory of Collunaria and gathers historical instruments that have been used through time at the institute. ...

Museo Civico della cultura materiale

Museum of Material Culture

  The museum of Material Culture was created in 1987 on initiative of the population of Montepagano and with the help of the publicist Luigi Braccili; ...

Museo delle Scienze Naturali

Museum of Natural Science

The Museum consists of a scientific and didactic exhibition aiming at the popularization of Paleontology, Mineralogy and Meteoritics. In this didactic centre ...

Museo della Civiltà contadina in Val Vibrata

Museum of rural civilization of the Vibrata

The museum is organized into monographic sections, each one dedicated to objects and documents related to different processing cycles: the hemp cycle, the wheat ...

Interni museo

Museum of Sacred Arts of Torano Nuovo

The Museum, which stands next to the Church of the Madonna delle Grazie, displays all the treasures the people of Torano have jealously preserved in the course ...

Interno del Museo

Museum of Tossicia. Artisan work-Art-Communication

Situated in the Palazzo Marchesale, the Museum was created to collect and put on display scenes of material culture and history of the “people of the Gran Sasso”. ...

Tomba n. 2

National Archeological Museum of Abruzzo - Campli

The National Archeological Museum of Campli is directly connected to the nearby necropolis of Campovalano that has given us, after almost 40 years of research, ...

Edificio scolastico in piazza della Libertà

Raffaello Pagliacetti sculpture exhibition

In 1914 Pasquale Ventili purchased 15 Pagliacetti sculptures from various museums of Florence, and donated them to several Hospitals and Welfare Institutes of ...

The Museum

Research Centre of Historiography “Museum of Antique Weapons”

The collection is exhibited inside an ancient residence built on Roman style foundations. In the courtyard various antiques can be admired, among which motor ...

Museo civico archeologico romualdi

Romualdi Civic Museum of Archaeology

  The museum is hosted inside the Palace which was donated by the Romualdi family itself to the municipality of Notaresco. It gathers testimonies excavated ...

Sant'Angelo Cave Museum

The museum consists of different sections: one was set up inside a cave near to the actual Grotta S.Angelo in Ripe di Civitella del Tronto and includes a prehistoric ...

Museo Stauros d'Arte Sacra Contemporanea

Staurós Museum of contemporary sacred Arts

The Staurós Museum of contemporary sacred arts on the Passion of Christ was inaugurated on the 1 st October 1994 to conclude the 6 th Biennal and includes three ...

Pinacoteca Civica di Teramo

Teramo Picture Gallery

The gallery is set up inside the neoclassical building of the Villa Comunale and treasures art works dating back from the 15 th century up to today: mediaeval ...

Museo De Bartolomei

The Bartolomei Chapel

On the Piazza della Libertà in Giulianova paese stands an elegant family chapel executed according to the layouts of the late architect Lupi from Teramo. From ...

museo del cervo

The Deer Museum

The museum stands at the foot of the Venacquaro Valley, within the oldest beech wood of Europe. It is divided into two sections; the documentary section illustrates ...

Esterno del museo

The Fortress Weapon museum

The Fortress museum of weapons and antique maps is set up inside the former garrison quarters. Today 5 cannons and the cannon balls, that were found in the ...

Chinese statue

The Gambacorta Collection of Chinese Art and Culture

The private collection, which is situated in a building in the historic center of Castiglione Messer Raimondo, documents the cultural expression of the Chinese ...

The Mountain Cyclops Museum

This exhibition of suggestive and interesting photographs is dedicated to two of the Patriarchs of the Monti della Laga: the megalithic walls of Colle del Vento, ...

Room 1

The Splendore Art Museum of Splendour

  The Splendour Art Museum (MAS) was created in 1997 thanks to Father Serafino Colangeli inside the ancient Capucine Convent. It lies next to the Sanctuary ...

il lupo

The Wolf Museum of Arista

This Museum was though as a space dedicated to informing and sensitizing above all young generations. Explicative panels and multimedia devices help the visitor ...

Esterno del museo

TO KE di Santini Museum of contemporary Art

Each room is set up with contemporary but hand cut mosaics, material and abstract oil paintings, sacred art, water paintings, graphic works, prints and sculptures. ...

Centro per le acque

Water research centre

It is the first Water Research Centre in Italy. The rooms are set up with most innovative didactic tools and aids of modern museology, that illustrate through ...

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