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Abruzzo spring drive week based in Capestrano

Hi--
I could most appreciate some help with four of our six travel itinerary days bases in Capestrano, Abruzzo. Our two coastal days are easy and done. Getting around inland is much more challenging. My wife and I are of course facing indirect roads from place to place. I am most familiar with these having visited and driven Italy many times over the years. The dirivng is not an issue. It's avoiding excess time in the car that is of concern.

There are potentially 40 to 50 very interesting villages and areas "around" Capestrano, but to string four sites to visit into hopefully under 150 km (around 200 at most) for a day's drive becomes difficult. I would love to get some suggestions of better sites and villages (I'll do the research once getting the names) to fill those four days inland. (I'm sure many will be on my already collected list, but cutting down to the best options to each day's fitting daily route would be great help.

Grazie tanto!

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One good resource for smaller towns is the organization Borghi Piu Belli d'Italia whose members have met several criteria for traditional towns. The info pages of each town will give you some idea of the character of the borgo. The Abruzzo link is here: http://borghipiubelliditalia.it/abruzzo/ and the site has both Italian and English. Some of the towns are fantastic, but you should do additional research as they can also be pretty while extremely depopulated. Some will have services, and some nada.

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Agreed Mike- The borghi site's been a very good resource for years amiong the many I find for each province.

If anyone has SPECIFIC ideas about Abruzzo villages/sites (4 days inland) and (2 days) coastal (both not too far of our Capestrano self cater for the mid spring week, that would be most helpful. We try to drive between 120 and 175 kilometers daily with a bit more if needed for something special (roughly 70 to 125 miles) --