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Isola del Gran Sasso Destination Guide

Touring Isola del Gran Sasso in Italy

Isola del Gran Sasso in the region of Abruzzo with its 4,883 citizens is a city located in Italy - some 73 mi or ( 118 km ) North-East of Rome , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of Isola del Gran Sasso

Time in Isola del Gran Sasso is now 06:48 PM (Monday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Rome " with a UTC offset of 1 hours. Depending on your travel resources, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: Urbino, Trieste, Torricella Sicura, Teramo, and Rome. Being here already, consider visiting Urbino . We collected some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Check out our recommendations for Isola del Gran Sasso ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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U2 Until The End Of The World Cover

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This is my first cover. I am sorry for the quality audio and video. Use for small effects Zoom G2 1u. ..

Yoga Activity Holidays in Abruzzo, Italy

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Slide show of a yoga holiday at Casa Mimosa in 2008. ..


Csárdás Youth Ensemble Visit Hungary in July 2007!

5:57 min by CsardasDanceCompan
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This is a 6-minute video clip of the Csárdás Youth Ensemble visit to Hungary in summer 2007. See the dance camp they visited in motion including dance master, Sándor Timár! ..

mare pineto

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lido i due fratelli ..


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Interesting facts about this location

OPERA experiment

The Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) is an instrument used in a scientific experiment for detecting tau neutrinos from muon neutrino oscillations. The experiment is a collaboration between CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Gran Sasso, Italy and uses the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) neutrino beam.

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Located at 42.46 13.57 (Lat./Long.); Less than 9 km away
Tags: Neutrino experiments

Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is a particle physics laboratory of the INFN, situated near the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, between the towns of L'Aquila and Teramo, about 120 km from Rome. In addition to a surface portion of the laboratory, there are extensive underground facilities beneath the mountain. The first large experiments at LNGS ran in 1989; the facilities were later expanded.

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Located at 42.46 13.57 (Lat./Long.); Less than 9 km away
Tags: Neutrino observatories, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Physics laboratories, Research institutes in Italy, Underground laboratories

Campo Imperatore

Campo Imperatore is a mountain grassland or alpine meadow formed by a high basin shaped plateau located in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy in the Gran Sasso massif. It is the largest plateau of the Apennine ridge. Known as Italy's "Little Tibet", it is located in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park. Campo Imperatore has a tectonic origin shaped by alluviums and glaciers.

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Located at 42.44 13.59 (Lat./Long.); Less than 9 km away
Tags: Geography of Abruzzo, Landforms of Italy, Plateaus of Italy

Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore

The Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore (Giardino Botanico Alpino di Campo Imperatore, 3000 m²) is a botanical garden for alpine plants located at Campo Imperatore, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. It is operated by the University of L'Aquila. The garden was founded in 1952 by botanist Vincenzo Rivera. It collects plants local to the nearby Gran Sasso massif of the Apennine Mountains, including hundreds of grass species, false bilberry, greater gentian, and the Appennine edelweiss.

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Located at 42.47 13.55 (Lat./Long.); Less than 10 km away
Tags: Botanical gardens in Italy, Gardens in Abruzzo, L'Aquila

Calderone glacier

The Calderone glacier (Ghiacciaio del Calderone) located in the Gran Sasso d’Italia mountain group in Abruzzo, Italy lies just beneath Corno Grande, the highest peak in the Apennines. With the disappearance of the Corral de la Veleta glacier (37° N) in 1913, which lay in Spain's Sierra Nevada, "Il Calderone" became Europe's southernmost known glacier (42°28′N, 13°33′E) until the discovery of a number of small glaciers in the Prokletije in 2009.

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Located at 42.47 13.55 (Lat./Long.); Less than 10 km away
Tags: Apennines, Glaciers of Italy, Mountains of Abruzzo

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Historical Weather

temperature and rainfall during the year in Isola del Gran Sasso