Province of L\'Aquila

**Province of L'Aquila**


Nation	Italy
Region	Abruzzo
Capital	L'Aquila
Area	5,034 km²
Population (2001)	297,592
Density	59
Comuni	108
Vehicle Registration	AQ
Postal Code	67100, 67010, 67012, 67013, 67014, 67015, 67017, 67019, 67020, 67021, 67022, 67023, 67024, 67025, 67026, 67027, 67028, 67029, 67030, 67031, 67032, 67033, 67034, 67035, 67036, 67037, 67038, 67039, 67040, 67041, 67043, 67044, 67045, 67046, 67047, 67048, 67049, 67050, 67051, 67052, 67053, 67054, 67055, 67056, 67057, 67058, 67059, 67060, 67061, 67062, 67063, 67064, 67066, 67067, 67068, 67069
Telephone Prefix	0862, 0863, 0864
ISTAT	066
President	Stefania Pezzopane

Map highlighting the location of the province of L'Aquila in Italy

Corno Grande, Italian peninsula’s tallest peak

Santa Maria della Pietà and Rocca Calascio

Campo Imperatore in spring

Map of the province. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest L'Aquila is a city and Comune of central Italy. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the Aterno river and surrounded Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic Administrative division of both provinces and regions and may be properly approximated in Present Italian car number plates have black characters on a rectangular white background with small blue side-fields on the right and left (see European vehicle registration Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ( Istat) is the Italian national statistical institute

The Province of L'Aquila (Provincia dell'Aquila) is the largest, most mountainous and least densely populated province of the Abruzzo region of Italy. In Italy, a Province (in Italian provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between Municipality ( Comune Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest It comprises about half the landmass of Abruzzo and occupies the western part of the region. It has borders with the provinces of Teramo to the north, Pescara and Chieti to the east, Isernia (in Molise region) to the south and Frosinone, Rome and Rieti (in Lazio region) to the west. The Province of Teramo is located in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The Province of Pescara ( Provincia di Pescara) is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The Province of Chieti (Italian Provincia di Chieti) is a province in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The Province of Isernia (Italian Provincia di Isernia) is a province in the Molise region of Italy. Molise is a region of Southern Italy, the second smallest of the regions The Province of Frosinone ( Italian: Provincia di Frosinone) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy, with 91 The Province of Rome (Provincia di Roma is a province and the Metropolitan area of Rome in the Lazio region of Italy, with an area The Province of Rieti (Provincia di Rieti is a province in the Latium region of Italy. For the football club see SS Lazio Lazio ( Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Its capital is the city of L'Aquila. L'Aquila is a city and Comune of central Italy. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the Aterno river and surrounded The Province of L'Aquila includes the highest mountains of the Apennines (Gran Sasso, Maiella and Velino-Sirente), their highest peak, Corno Grande, the high plain of Campo Imperatore, and Europe's southernmost glacier, the Calderone. Corno Grande is part of the Gran Sasso massif and is the highest peak in the Apennine Mountains and the highest on the Italian Peninsula, at 2912 m Campo Imperatore is a mountain Grassland formed by a high basin shaped Plateau located in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of The Calderone glacier (Ghiacciaio del Calderone located in the Gran Sasso d’Italia mountain group in Abruzzo, Italy lies just beneath Corno The province's major rivers are the Aterno-Pescara, Sangro, Liri, Salto, and the Turano; its major lakes are Lago Scanno and Lago Barrea. It once included the largest lake on the Italian peninsula, Lago Fucino, which was drained in one of the 19th century's largest engineering projects. The Fucine Lake ( Italian: Lago Fucino or Lago di Celano) was a large Lake in central Italy. The lake basin today today a flourishing agricultural area and an important technological district.

Economy and Population

The province is known for its many castles, fortresses and pristine medieval hill towns. The province's two major cities, L'Aquila and Avezzano, experienced rapid economic expansion in the last two decades with the growth of transportation manufactoring, telecommunications, and computer industries. Throughout most of the 20th century, the province's rural areas experienced serious population declines with the near collapse of it pastoral agricultural economy. In recent years with the creation the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park, the Majella National Park and the Sirente-Velino Regional Park, tourism has boosted the economy of rural L'Aquila and begun to reverse its population decline. The Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park was established in 1991

It has an area of 5,034 km², and a total population of 297,592 (2001).

Cities and Towns

There are 108 comunes in all [1]

The largest are:

Comune	Inhabitants
L'Aquila	71,761
Avezzano	39,670
Sulmona	25,363
Celano	11,012
Pratola Peligna	7,890
Tagliacozzo	6,820
Trasacco	6,115
Castel di Sangro	5,778
Luco dei Marsi	5,776
Capistrello	5,473
Carsoli	5,238

External links

(Italian) Provincia dell'Aquila Official website

L'Aquila is a city and Comune of central Italy. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the Aterno river and surrounded Avezzano is a town and Comune in the Abruzzo region Province of L'Aquila. Sulmona ( Latin: Sulmo; Greek:) is a city and comune of the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo, Italy, with Celano is a town in the Province of L'Aquila, Italy, 120 km east of Rome by rail Pratola Peligna is a Comune and Town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Tagliacozzo is a town and commune in Italy, in the region of Abruzzo. Trasacco is a Comune and Town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Castel di Sangro is a city of 6109 people (as of 2008 in the Province of L'Aquila, in Abruzzo, southern Italy. Luco dei Marsi is a Comune and Town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Capistrello is a Comune and Town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy Carsoli is a town and commune in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo (central Italy) The following is a list of the 108 comuni of the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, in Italy.

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