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Abruzzo region coming soon!
Gran Sasso, Italy - the Best of Both Worlds in Just One
Place
Scandinavian
snow,
Dolomite
rock,
Mediterranean
sun. We are not talking about three different places
2000 km away from one another but we are talking about
one single place: the “Gran Sasso” mountain in
Abruzzo,
central Italy. It is nearly exaggerated in its
contrasts, its dimension, its mighty natural forces.
The mountain range of
Gran Sasso
rises grandiose, a bit out of scale, with about twenty
peaks above 2000 metres a.s.l., hit by winds and snow
storms for 6 months per year. Here, especially when the
Balkan draughts arrive, can snow a lot more than on the
Alps, even 80 cm in a single night.
On the canals of
Corno Grande (Big Horn), the highest
peak of the
Apennines
with its 2.912 metres a.s.l., the
snow lasts until July, even though the only glacier of
the range, the
Calderone, can be considered extinct.
The
Gran Sasso
is not only wild peaks and bare rocks but
is also plenty of small peculiar villages such as
Isola
del Gran Sasso, also called “the saying village” for the
door and window lintels are carved with wise Latin
sayings,
Castelli
famous for its majolica,
Santo Stefano di Sessanio which has gain notoriety for its recent
conversion in Albergo Diffuso (diffuse hotel)
and then the lonely village of
Rocca Calascio
with its
fortress, a brave sentinel at 1460 metres a.s.l. since
the VIII century.
The
Gran Sasso is, of course, synonymous of winter
sports. Here skiing was born during the Fascism with the
first cableway that linked
Fonte Cerreto
to
Campo Imperatore. This big plateau, that opens all of a sudden
at an altitude of about 2000 metres a.s.l., is
particularly suitable for cross-country skiing and ski
excursions. A spectacular white plateau 19 Km long and 4
Km wide that is hard to forget.
The ski resort of
Campo Imperatore
can easily compete with the ones on the
Alps
with its 20 Km of pists. The off-pists of
Tre
Valloni
and the wild
Valle Fredda
(Cold Valley) are very
appreciated at top levels.
The ultimate ski lifts are the only modernity permission
in a planet called
Gran Sasso that seems to be
unchangeable, where the building developments aimed to
satisfy the ever growing demand and offer of tourist
resorts are respectful of both tradition and
environment, matching the standards owed to one of the
most beautiful and important Natural Parks in Italy.
For the ones interesting in investing in property
in Italy, the
property market around the
Gran Sasso area and in all
the
Abruzzo
region offers great opportunities.
Prices of property
in
Abruzzo are
still surprisingly low, especially in rural areas where
is possible to buy a country home or a stone house to be
restored with some land for less than €80,000.
But rural areas in
Abruzzo are not the only ones
offering great investment opportunities, there is plenty
of properties to buy at an affordable price by the
coast, where with an investment as little as €130,000 is
possible to buy a 2 bedroom apartment facing the sea,
with the possibility to rent the property as an holiday let
and get also a good income to
help pay the investment.
About the author:
Simone Rossi works for
the
Italian property portal http://www.gate-away.com. Gate-away.com
is the leading property portal specialized in the
promotion of property
in Italy to
foreign investors.
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