Abruzzo News: 28 January 2000

Abruzzo natural and artistic riches have been quoted in works by D'Annunzio, Michetti, Patini, etc. Therefore the proposal of a Literary Park of the works in the field of literature, art, cinema, that centre on Abruzzo. A kind of literary map will then be developed, with signals on the territory leading visitors to places made immortal by art and they will for example contemplate the sea from the Eremo dannunziano, San Vito Chietino, the Fucino from the orchard of Don Benedetto, or follow Pomilio's steps through Teramo

Hermit Pietro del Morrone, later Pope Celestine V also visited the lettese mountains. To commemorate that Nino Di Pietrantonio, former Post Director and stone carver will carve a statue from a 2-mt-high, 2000 kg heavy white stone, that he would like to be placed at Fonte del Papa, where the hermit often paused to rest.

A silent audience listened in Teramo to the memories of Auschwitz survivor Pietro Terracina, on the anniversary of the liberation. Pietro was taken by the Germans with his mother, father and brothers, and for seven days he was in a carriage for animals. He had a final glimpse of his mother in the camp, after which he never saw his family again. He said to the listening youths: «freedom is not something you gain once for all - the horror may return».