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“Ratafia” or “Rattafia” Liqueur

“Ratafia” or “Rattafia” Liqueur

Ratafia is a liqueur produced in all of Abruzzo, using sour cherries and Montepulciano red wine. The traditional recipe, varying from place to place, involves variable proportions of whole or pitted sour cherries and sugar being placed in glass jars that are left in...

Intosso Olives

Intosso Olives

The Intosso olive cultivar (locally known as “‘ndoss”) is grown throughout Abruzzo, particularly in the Provinces of Chieti and Pescara. This variety is chiefly used as a table olive, even though it also produces good extra virgin olive oil, either alone or in small...

Molise’s Landscape: The Towns

Molise’s Landscape: The Towns

Guardialfiera, Campobasso, Molise, Italy Guardialfiera is a town in Molise with a lake, artificial water reservoir formed in the sixties and seventies from the rise of a dam on the river Biferno in order to provide drinking water to surrounding countries for domestic,...

Abruzzo’s Landscape: The Towns

Abruzzo’s Landscape: The Towns

Atessa, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy Atessa is a rural town set in the hills of the Sangro river valley.  It has many picturesque and delightful small alleyways which wind their way up to the top of the town, where there are marvellous views.  It is best known for the...

Among the enchanting panoramas!

 

Autumn Winter Spring Summer;

It doesn’t matter when you would like to visit Abruzzo and Molise, every season offers different colors. Cool off in many shady areas, full of streams, waterfalls during the summer; enjoy the peace that only snow can give you in winter on the Majella and Matese mountains; the warm autumn colors of the woods of the National Park and finally the blue of the sea and the sky in spring with the colors of flowers on the gentle hills. Come and discover every day.

The sea is everything.

It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
(Jules Verne)

Thousands of tired,

nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
(John Muir)

Nature is the source of all true knowledge.

She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
(Leonardo da Vinci)

Nature seems to wear one universal grin …

Nature Always Wears The Colors Of The Spirit!