This is the Abruzzo & Molise chapter from Lonely Planet’s Italy guidebook.

Abruzzo is an area of unspoiled natural beauty and rural, back-country charm with its great Apennine peaks, still, silent valleys and pretty hilltop towns. To the south, Molise offers more of the same, albeit on a smaller, less dramatic scale.

• breathe in the pure mountain air of Pescocostanzo, one of Abruzzo’s hidden jewels
• maps
• drive or hike the high windswept plateau of Campo Imperatore, Italy’s ‘Little Tibet’
• transport
• restaurants & accommodation
• feel the call of the wild as you climb the Corno Grande, summit of the Gran Sasso and the Apennine’s highest peak

Coverage includes: Abruzzo, Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga, Sulmona, Parco Nazionale della Majella, Scanno, Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, Pescara, Chieti, Vasto, Molise, Campobasso & around, Isernia & around, Termoli and Albanian towns.