The pursuit of truly sustainable travel in Italy often leads to discovering hidden heavens, and when it comes to the conscious way of traveling there is perhaps no destination more significant than the Regional Park Sirente Velino. Deep in the province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, the Green Heart of Europe, this vast protected expanse only around 100 km far from Rome is much more than just a breathtaking landscape within the majestic Sirente and Velino massifs.
The Park represents indeed a pioneering model for the future of rural and wild areas, and is officially recognized as the Europe’s first green community. That's a status of great significance and responsibility, aiming at developing a travel eco-community based on the revival of local villages, the slow sustainable living and the preservation of environment and wildlife.
