The Most Beautiful Village in Italy that we admire today is Castel del Monte in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo.
Suspended between the peaks of the Gran Sasso and the Tirino valley, a stone miracle takes shape before our eyes: it is Castel del Monte, announced by the mighty bell tower.
Memories of the past materialize here, as soon as you enter the village, in those admirable pieces of popular architecture that are the ancient portals, windows, vignali (the external stairs), the passage arches.
The compactness of the built-up area, linked to defensive issues, required the model of the tower-house. The houses, arranged on the lines parallel to the contour lines (the main roads) intersected by steep and winding connecting streets, are welded to each other through arches and vaults (the sports).
Going up from Castel del Monte towards the mountain, you discover the immense spaces of Camp Emperor, which appears, at an altitude of 1600 m, like a boundless prairie where the gaze is lost in a sea of grass or snow ...
