The Abruzzo ski resorts

On Gran Sasso, there is Campo Imperatore with its hotel, now completely renovated, where Benito Mussolini was imprisoned in 1943. There is a modem funicular, 4 skilifts and 8 ski runs. At the foot of the funicular, there are three hotels and a campsite, at a distance of only 18 kms from L'Aquila with its history and facilities. Staying with Gran Sasso we can find the Monte Cristo facility with a two-seater chairlift and 10 ski runs.

On the Teramo side of the "Tetto d'Abruzzo" (the Roof of Abruzzo) the Prati di Tivo resort has a chairlift, 5 skilifts and 9 ski runs, and here it is possible to do cross country skiing on two circuits and the heliski. To complete the resort's infrastructural equipment, there is an excellent skiing school, 7 hotels and a campsite. Between Gran Sasso and the Monti della Laga there are three skilifts, a chair-lift and the ski runs of Prato Selva with a hotel and a skiing school. And last but not least, not far from Civitella del Tronto, there is Monte Piselli with its chair lift, 3 skilifts and 4 ski runs.

Moving to the Majella, at Campo di Giove there is a cableway, 3 skilifts and 6 ski runs, with a skiing school, hotels and guesthouses. Passo San Leonardo is not far from Campo di Giove and has 2 skilifts, 6 ski runs and a hotel. On the sea side of the Majella, where you can ski looking over the Adriatic, there is the Passo Lanciano-Majelletta resort, less than an hour by car from Chieti and Pescara, which offers 9 skilifts, 10 ski runs, a good skiing school, 5 hotels and a CM refuge. The Ovindoli-Magnola facilities can be found on the Sirente-Velino, with their 2 chair lifts, 6 skilifts and 14 ski runs. Here there are prepared circuits for cross country skiing, and, of course, a good skiing school. The hotel accommodation is good, as are the numerous residential hotels, private flats, the nightclubs and the discos.

Between Rocca di Cambio and Rocca di Mezzo, there is one of the most modern and advanced skiing resorts in the Apennines: Campo Felice. The facilities, 4 chair lifts and 11 skilifts, serve about 20 ski runs almost all of which have a "cannon" for artificial snow. It is possible to enjoy a break without taking your skiis off at one of the bars or restaurants that can be found right on the ski runs. Efficiency describes the skiing school, hotels, residential hotels and private flats found in the nearby Rocca di Cambio and Rocca di Mezzo.
In the highest part of the Sangro Valley there are 2 small resorts: Gamberale and Pizzoferrato.

On the lake of Scanno there are Monte Rotondo and Passo Godi with their chair and ski lifts, a skiing school, 18 hotels and a campsite. Not far from the borders of the National Park of Abruzzo, it is possible to ski at the Comprensorio dell'Alto Sangro, the biggest skiing centre in the whole of the central-southern Italy, and the seventh territory at a national level. Spread over the communes of Roccaraso, with its elegant boutiques and sports facilities, Rivisondoli, famous for its renowned Live Christmas Crib, Pescocostanzo, a town with an exceptional patrimony of renaissance and baroque monuments, the territory is under the total management of the Alto Sangro Ski-pass Association. It works with the newest facilities, the most modem in Europe, thanks to which it is possible to serve numerous downhill ski runs with any possible requirement, from the beginners' runs to those on which the 1994 Italian Absolute Championships were held.

Finally, on the border between Abruzzo and Lazio, there are the skiing facilities of Marsia at the foot of Monte Midia (one chair lift, 2 skilifts, 6 ski runs) with a skiing school, a hotel and a campsite, and those of Cappadocia Camporotondo with its 2 ski-lifts, 5 ski runs and 2 circuits for cross country skiing. However, the most important skiing facilities of the region are found in the National Park of Abruzzo area, in the 'triangle" of Roccaraso - Rivisondoli - Pescocostanzo. In the National Park of Abruzzo there is the elegant Pescasseroli, seat of the head offices of the Park, the Natural History Museum and birthplace of Benedetto Croce.
It also boasts 2 chair lifts, 9 ski runs, a skiing school, 13 hotels, and a campsite, all of which is connected and associated to both the Alto Sangro Ski-pass Association and the Incoming Abruzzo accommodation association. Not far off, Opi, in the locality of Macchiarvana offers for cross country skiing lovers, 5 prepared circuits, a school and a hotel.