Tourism in Abruzzo

A moderate support to tourism is also given to the Abruzzo Airport with many low cost and charter flights connecting the entire region with the rest of Europe.

With regard to this type of tourism are many activities that you can do: sailing, windsurfing and kite surfing, canoeing, fishing, boating (including jet skiing and water skiing), fishing and underwater photography, scuba diving, snorkeling, horseback riding, golf, mountain biking, cycling, motorcycle racing, motocross and off-road, kayaking.

[60][61][62] As for the art-historical and religious tourism cultural, historical and cultural importance are the city of Chieti with Roman ruins, churches, museums (Museo archeologico nazionale d'Abruzzo[63] with inside the Warrior of Capestrano,[64] Teramo (Teramo Cathedral[65]), Vasto (Palazzo D'Avalos, Castello Caldonesco), Lanciano (Miracle of Lanciano[66]), Manoppello (Manoppello Image[67]), Ortona (Basilica-Cathedral of St. Thomas the Apostle with the remains of the saint disciple of Jesus[68]), Atri (Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta[69]), Giulianova (Cathedral of San Flaviano[70]), Sulmona (Sulmona Cathedral), l'Aquila (including the famous Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio[71] - with the remains of Pope Celestine V - severely damaged by the earthquake of 2009), (Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo[72]), Santa Maria del Suffragio, Forte Spagnolo, Fontana delle 99 cannelle), St. Gabriel's shrine[73] with average of 2 million visitors per year is one of the 15 most visited sanctuaries in the world[74] and others small villages with many monuments, museums,[75] castles[76] and churches[77] of national importance; even though a city Pescara modern, has basilicas, shrines, churches and important museums (Basilica della Madonna dei sette dolori, Madonna del Fuoco, Pescara Cathedral, e Museo casa natale Gabriele D'Annunzio[78]).

In the interior mountains are ancient villages included, among other things on the list of I Borghi più belli d'Italia[79](Abbateggio, Anversa degli Abruzzi, Bugnara, Campli, Caramanico Terme, Casoli, Castel del Monte, Castelli, Città Sant'Angelo, Civitella del Tronto whose fortress is the most visited monument in the whole Abruzzo region,[80] Crecchio, Guardiagrele, Introdacqua, Navelli, Opi, Pacentro, Penne, Pescocostanzo, Pettorano sul Gizio, Pietracamela, Pretoro, Rocca San Giovanni, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Scanno, Tagliacozzo, Villalago), castles (in Roccascalegna, Celano, Pacentro, Anversa degli Abruzzi, Avezzano, Balsorano, Villalago, Calascio, Valle Castellana, Monteodorisio, Carpineto Sinello, Crecchio, Civitaluparella, Ortona, Castiglione Messer Marino, Civitella Messer Raimondo, Vasto, Palmoli, Serramonacesca, Salle), hermitages[81] (Sant'Onofrio al Morrone, San Giovanni, San Bartolomeo, etc..), sanctuaries Basilica santuario del Volto Santo di Manoppello, Monastero di Santa Maria in Valle Rotana Convents (Convento del Ritiro della Santissima Annunziata del Poggio, Convento della Madonna del Carmine, Convento di San Francesco (Lanciano), Convento Michetti, Ex Convento di San Donato), abbeys[77] (San Clemente a Casauria, San Liberatore a Majella, San Giovanni in Venere, Abbazia Santa Maria in Montesanto, Abbazia di Santa Lucia, Abbazia di Santa Maria Arabona, Badia Morronese), and old churches[77] (Santa Maria ad Cryptas a Fossa, San Tommaso di Caramanico and others).

[83] Abruzzo has many small and picturesque villages, 26 of them have been selected by I Borghi più belli d'Italia (English: The most beautiful Villages of Italy),[89] a non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest,[90] that was founded on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National Association of Italian Municipalities.

Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise
Abruzzo Chamois on the National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga.
Black Track in Roccaraso ski resort (M. Aremogna).
Faggeta Val Fondillo
Giulianova seaside
St. Gabriel's shrine: The old church
The Warrior of Capestrano
Castel del Monte
Mortadella di Campotosto
Maiella
Ski resort Campo Felice
Maielletta ski resort
Ovindoli ski resort
Pescara beach
Ortona
Bomba Lake
Penne
Castel del Monte
Pescara Cathedral
Museo Archeologico Nazionale d'Abruzzo
Birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio Museum
Castello Aragonese, Ortona
Castle of Rocca Calascio
Castello Caldoresco, Vasto
Castello Piccolomini (Celano)
Abbey of the Holy Spirit at Monte Morrone, Sulmona
Hermitage Santo Spirito a Majella
Amiternum
Basilica of San Bernardino
Majella National Park Winter
Marina di Vasto and the Golfo di Vasto in the Adriatic Sea, seen from Vasto.
Lake Barrea and Mount Marsicano.
Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park
Cascata delle Barche