Abruzzo News: 22 November 2000

It sounds like an invention, but according to a hunter from Pescara in the woods around Roccaspinalveti there is a really uncommon animal for the area. It could be a panther feeding on boars and animal bodies. Investigation is under course. Also a TV crew seems interested in this unusual event.

At the newsagent's the winter issue of "D'Abruzzo", quarterly journal by Gaetano Basti. A special section is reserved to the Giostra of Sulmona that this year became "European": fine pictures to show to the readers the beautiful event. More articles on Santa Maria del Lago and Fonte Evetica, itineraries through Val Maone and the Castle of Roccaccasale, some of the least known sights in Abruzzo, that would be worth to visit. With the magazine also a Cd-rom on Celestino V.

In the Cantelmo castle today inauguration of the "scuola di arte floreale", section of the prestigious Paris school. The seat in Pettorano is the second opened in Italy, after the one in Rome. Courses for amateur and professionals.

Margherita Cappola Riccitelli, born in 1900, the mother of art gallery and museut operator Eugenio Riccitelli received many artistic and colorful birthday cards.

Ario De Santis has enriched the parking place of his hotel with trees taken with great care from nearby Feudo in Morro D'Oro, and transported on enormous lorries. there is company now therefore for the 500-year-old olive tre in Cologna Spiaggia.