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Abruzzo has countless villages: tiny settlements of brick and stone houses that huddle together, with miniscule humpback lanes. Abruzzo’s ancient mountain and inland villages were built in hard stone and mortar, without any visible wood, expressing the bond with stone that was so typical of Mediterranean construction culture. The result is often stunning: a perfect fusion of bare mountain stones and the towns that emerged among them.
If stone is the main construction material used in the inland areas, as we travel out towards the coast and discover the beautiful, farmed hillsides rolling down to the sea, we pass through villages where the stone slowly makes way for brick. The urban plan is similar in all these settlements: at the top we usually find the castle, then lower down, a square with the main parish church.
Overall, whether they are ruins with an evocative, romantic atmosphere, or functional restored constructions, their strength lies in the fact that they are perfectly integrated into the landscape, a feature which is common to most monuments in Abruzzo. Indeed, it can be said that almost every castle in Abruzzo preserves its walls, as well as its own context and original environment.
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