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  SULMONA: Hotels in Sulmona, Italy -GD Italy.com
Description: The Hotel Ovidius is situated in the city centre of Sulmona, almost at the foot of the Chatedral of St.Panfilo.
Description: The Europa Park Hotel is situated in the middle of the Valle Peligna, at the foot of the Monte Morrone and not very far from the centre of Sulmona...
Description: In the middle of a green island at the outskirts of Sulmona, only 1 Km from the center of the town and near the Ovidio's archeological excavations, is situated Motel Salvador...
www.gditaly.com /italy/abruzzo/sulmona/hotels.htm   (382 words)

  
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dioceses of Valva and Sulmona
Valva, a medieval castle belonging to the Bishop of Sulmona, Baron of Valva, is situated near the ancient Corfinium, chief town of the Peligni, A Samnite tribe.
Sulmona, formerly Sulmo, is situated in a fertile plain, watered by the Gizzio, a tributary of the Pescara, at the base of the Maiella and Monte Morrone.
Sulmona was a Pelignian city, and is first mentioned in the wars of Hannibal, during which is remained faithful to the Romans.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15264c.htm   (620 words)

  
  Sulmona   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sulmona, province of L'Aquila, is located on the western side of the Maiella National Park at an elevation of 1200 feet in the heart of the Peligna Valley, surrounded by the Maiella and Morrone mountains and Mounts Rotella, Genzana and Argatone.
It is the largest town in the Maiella National Park, with a population of 26,000.
Sulmona is well-known for its goldsmiths and for its "confetti," an ancient traditional sweet consisting of candy-coated almonds, sometimes worked into fantastic arrangements.
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 Travel Destinations: Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy
Sulmona's pleasant milieu of public gardens, national parks, and enchanting piazzas has won the city a reputation nearly as sweet as its sugared almonds, or confetti, a local dessert loved and eaten around the world.
A small town, Sulmona is known best as the birthplace of the illustrious Latin poet Ovid, and as an agricultural and commercial center with a longtime tradition in the goldsmith trade.
Sulmona's train station is located 2 km outside the city center, with a bus connecting the station to the town.
www.italiancookingandliving.com /travel/destinations/sulmona.html   (562 words)

  
 La città di Sulmona, famosa per Ovidio e per i Confetti :: Sulmona.org
Una breve descrizione dei musei di Sulmona corredata da alcune foto.
Come arrivare a Sulmona e il percorso turistico alla scoperta di piazze, fontane, chiese, palazzi, porte e bellezze naturali di Sulmona e circondario, corredato da numerose fotografie.
La storia che lega il Giro d'Italia a Sulmona, le Salite e i Percorsi più importanti della Valle Peligna e dell'Abruzzo, un javascript per calcolare la Pendenza media di una salita.
www.sulmona.org   (0 words)

  
 Italian confetti flowers - Sulmona
To buy the sugared almond flowers of Sulmona as a souvenir is too strong a temptation for tourists visiting the city to resist!
You can write a name and/or a date on the sugared almond you like to have a memory of your own party!
Send us an e-mail and let us know the kind of flower you have chosen and the personal data you want to write on it: click here
www.confettisulmona.it /index_en.htm   (0 words)

  
 Sulmona - Italy: Guide to Ovidio's town, famous for sugared almonds :: Sulmona.org
Sulmona historical events, from the city legendary origin by means of Solimo, a fellow of Enea's, till recent history.
Photographs, taken by myself, summarize the natural and artistic beauties of Sulmona and of the Abruzzi in Italy, among them sanpshots of the Chivarly Joust and of the Easter Manifestations.
The citizens of Sulmona who excelled in different cultural areas: Publio Ovidio Nasone, the poet of the Metamorphosis, Celestino V, the Pope of the "gran rifiuto" (great refusal), Giuseppe Capograssi, jurist and cultured, and another Pope, Innocenzo VII.
www.sulmona.org /index.en.php   (532 words)

  
 Sulmona in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo
Sulmona è situata ai piedi della Maiella, alla confluenza dei fiumi Gizio e Vella, in un punto dove, in epoca remota, sorgeva un lago (prosciugatosi naturalmente).
Importante centro agricolo e commerciale, Sulmona è celebre in tutto il mondo per i suoi confetti, ma anche per la sua arte orafa (i suoi antiche gioielli, recanti la sigla SUL, sono sparsi per i musei di tutto il mondo (oltre che presenti nel Vaticano).
Il nome Sulmona compare nei documenti storici sin dal 211 a.C., data in cui, secondo Tito Livio, Annibale l'avrebbe attraversata devastandola.
abruzzo2000.com /abruzzo/laquila/sulmona.htm   (254 words)

  
 BONT PatinCarrera.com .:: Campeonato Mundial de Patinaje - Abruzzo 2004 ::.
Located 66 kilometers from the L’ Aquila city, Sulmona is the principal center of the Peligna Valle.
With 25,000 residents, Sulmona is known as the un-lost Villa (small town).
Thousands of tourist flock to Sulmona weekly because of its popularity as a quaint town with friendly and warm residents.
www.patincarrera.com /abruzzo2004/eng/sulmona.html   (200 words)

  
 Sulmona travel guide
Sulmona travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
This is further east than L'Aquila and hence is a better location for exploring the National Park area.
Additional travel guides are available in ten languages at wikitravel.org.
www.world66.com /europe/italy/abruzzo/sulmona   (160 words)

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