The Società Geografica Italiana has launched a new website entitled Percorsi dAbruzzo (Abruzzo Ways) to encourage tourism to Abruzzo region. The area is well-known for its natural beauty and wildlife protection projects, but it also has much to offer as far as culture is concerned.
Through the Percorsi d'Abruzzo portal, visitors can learn about ancient traditions, such as the annual transhumance of the flocks, complete with its own calendar of festivities and events, the passage of civilizations, such as the Etruscans of the north and the Etruscan-Greek world of the South and the great annual religious festival of the Perdonanza Celestiniana in L'Aquila, introduced by Pope Celestino V and held each year in August since 1294 and which has applied to be included in the UNESCO immaterial heritage list.
The Italian Geographic Society seat in Rome was also the venue for the recent presentation of the book Dov Anders Trulson by Abruzzo researcher Antonio Bini, which recreated the largely forgotten story of the colony of Scandinavian artists that flourished in the remote mountain village of Civita d'Antino at the end of the 19th century and came tragically to an end with the Marsican earthquake of 1915.
