Arrival in Abruzzo in late afternoon for check-in at hotel on the coast north of Pescara, where the group will stay until the day of departure. Dinner and overnight stay

Departure for Sulmona, one of Abruzzo’s finest art cities, with a visit to the San Panfilo Cathedral, the mediaeval aqueduct, the Annunziata Church and Palace, and other monuments. Light lunch with traditional local specialities. After the panoramic Sagittario Gorges, the excursion reaches Lake Scanno. Visit to Scanno town centre, one of the region’s most attractive and best preserved. Scanno has long traditions of goldsmithing, still kept alive by local craftsmen. Visit to one of the town’s oldest goldsmithery workshops and return to hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

Departure for excursion to Lanciano, visiting the Santa Maria del Ponte Cathedral, the old Lancianovecchia quarter, the San Francesco Church, inside which the holy relics of the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano are kept, the oldest such relics and among the few recognized by the Catholic church. Light lunch with fish specialities at a traditional “trabocco” fishing platform. The excursion continues to the 13th-century San Giovanni in Venere Abbey, in a beautiful location overlooking the sea, then following the Trabocchi Coast. In the natural environment of rocky cliffs and tiny inlets, there are traditional “trabocchi” fishing platforms suspended above the sea and supported on tall wooden piles, an ancient type of fishing that now survives in only a few parts of the Mediterranean. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight stay.