I monumenti
Tutti i monumenti di L'Aquila
I luoghi e i capolavori attorno a cui vale la pena costruire una giornata.
NaturaCampo ImperatoreLittle Tibet plateau, Gran Sasso backdrop, Mussolini's mountain prison, transhumance pasturesThey call Gran Sasso's high plateau Little Tibet, twenty kilometers of treeless pasture under Corno Grande's wall. The hotel where Mussolini was held and rescued in 1943 still stands at the cable car's top station.Pianifica la visita
ChiesaBasilica di Santa Maria di CollemaggioPink and white checkerboard facade, Celestine V's tomb, Holy Door pardon, post-quake rebirthL'Aquila's great basilica wears a checkerboard of pink and white stone and keeps the tomb of Celestine V, the pope who resigned. His Perdonanza pardon still opens the Holy Door every August, the first jubilee's unbroken thread.
Sito archeologicoGemma nascostaCunicoli di ClaudioA Roman hydraulic complex built under Emperor Claudius c. 52 AD to drain the Fucine Lake - the longest tunnel in the world until 1871 - a national monument set within the Archaeological Park of Claudius.
FontanaFontana delle 99 CannelleNinety-nine masks and spouts, founding legend of 99 castles, medieval trapezoid court, unknown springNinety-nine carved masks have poured water since 1272, one for each castle said to have founded L'Aquila. The spring that feeds them has never been identified, a secret the trapezoidal courtyard keeps.
Nei dintorni
Nel raggio di una gita
Altri monumenti in Abruzzo, a una gita di distanza.
Santo Stefano di SessanioSanto Stefano di SessanioMedici mountain borgo, scattered-hotel revival, lentil terraces, stone lanes intact
AtriCattedrale di AtriAndrea De Litio fresco cycle, Abruzzo's Sistine choir, Roman cistern crypt, calanchi badlands setting
CalascioRocca CalascioApennine fortress at 1460 meters, Gran Sasso panoramas, Ladyhawke film location, Santa Maria della Pieta chapel
ScannoLago di ScannoHeart-shaped mountain lake, landslide origin, Sagittario gorges approach, photographers' village above
SulmonaGemma nascostaAbbazia di San Clemente a CasauriaA Benedictine abbey founded in 871 with a 12th-century Romanesque church famed for its 1191 bronze doors, now state-managed, restored after the 2009 earthquake and reopened with an on-site museum.
SulmonaGemma nascostaCastello CaldoraA medieval castle of 11th-15th-century origin with a trapezoidal plan, square towers and three circular bastions, dominating the hill-town of Pacentro near Sulmona.
FossacesiaGemma nascostaCastello di RoccascalegnaA medieval castle (12th-16th c.) perched dramatically on an overhanging rocky outcrop above the village, restored in the late 20th century and now open to visitors.
FossacesiaGemma nascostaAbbazia di San Giovanni in VenereA 13th-century Benedictine abbey on a hill overlooking the Adriatic, built over a 6th-century site and an earlier temple of Venus, tended since 1954 by a Passionist community and open to visitors.