Campo Imperatore and the Gran Sasso mountain range - east side

Campo Imperatore and the Gran Sasso mountain range - east side Campo Imperatore (formerly Campo Imperiale attributed to it by Frederick II of Swabia, is a vast plateau, of glacial and karst-alluvial origin, located at about 1800 m of altitude in the province of L'Aquila, in Abruzzo, in the heart of the Gran Sasso massif. Italy and the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, located between the municipalities of Barisciano, Calascio, Carapelle Calvisio, Castelvecchio Calvisio, Castel del Monte, L'Aquila and Santo Stefano di Sessanio, is home to the ski resort of the same name , the astronomical observatory and the alpine botanical garden. The Gran Sasso d'Italia (or simply Gran Sasso) is the highest mountain massif of the Apennines, located entirely in Abruzzo, in the easternmost ridge of the Abruzzo Apennines, on the border between the provinces of L'Aquila, Teramo and Pescara. Composed of several adjacent mountain groups and between the Monti della Laga to the north-west (separated from them by the upper Vomano Valley and the Gran Sasso d'Italia state road 80 that crosses it), Teramo to the north- east, the plain of Assergi and the Conca Aquilana to the south-west, the Piana di Navelli and the Valle del Tirino to the south, the Gole di Popoli to the south-east, is an environmental area protected by the establishment of the National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga and on it fell the mountain community Gran Sasso and the mountain community Campo Imperatore-Piana di Navelli.