Welcome to the Province of Chieti!

This considerable area in the Abruzzo Region constitutes a crossing of features and peculiarities, of tourist attractions, of virgin mountain landscapes and advanced urban sites.

Chieti and its Province are placed in a land boasting the incomparable privilege to possess, in a same territorial context, an incredible variety of resources coming from the natural reserves to the sanctuaries and to the historical centres, from the archaeological sites to the hills, to the countries, to the mountain, to the soft sand and to the suggestive and timeless “trabocchi”. It can be defined a puzzle territory, beginning from its geographical aspect: in a few kilometres you can go from a seascape to the peaks of the middle-east Appennine mountain, in a continuous latch among parallel valleys and seldom plain countries.

In this varied landscape, where the extraordinary closeness of mountain and hilly environments to the seaside resorts gives the Province the privilege to be the ideal place including seemingly different realities, are situated a lot of little towns. They contain history, strongly marked traditions, a culture to be discovered.

Chieti and its Province can be reasonable considered an art casket, where the word-couple nature and culture excels and people adjusted themselves to this land developing on the beach delightful resorts devoted to the seaside tourism. Otherwise, in the near hinterland real rural places, devoted to the agricultural economy, handicrafts and, recently, to tourism, can be found, next to ancient origin towns.

The visitor arriving in Chieti and in the provincial territory will have the chance to discover time by time the little traditions, the artistic secrets, the natural beauties and the remote age sites, the religiousness animating the people, the art of the good food. And the Province of Chieti is well pleased to let discover, promote and increase its little treasures, the result of its culture, devotion, hospitality and gifts of the same nature.