People from neighbouring regions are crowding the ski-fields in Abruzzo. Also Japanese tour operators are getting interested. Since half November it is possible to ski. Every resort full yesterday: 4000 people at Campo Felice, 3000 at Ovindoli, 2700 on Campo Imperatore. And Alberto Tomba showed up at Passolanciano.

Only 15 cm snow, but a wonderful sunney day welcomed Alberto Tomba at Passolanciano. The kids of the ski schools surrounded him for autographs while the champion said: «You have a great resource here: it is fantastic to ski with the sea on the horizon.» Then a meal with mushroom timballo, barbecued lamb and ricotta pie at Hotel Maielletta.

Inauguration in Atri of the first photo library in Abruzzo, with a first donation to the Ethnographic Museum. Gianfranco Arciero, professor of photo journalism at the prestigious Luiss university in Rome, who organized the "La fotografia per la pace e la libertà" exhibition, is starting in Atri a photo lab: children of an elementary school will receive a disposable Agfa and go around taking pictures of the town.

100 students will stage an Inferno at teatro Massimo next Monday within a project called "Comedia", organized by the Casa di Dante in Abruzzo, Torre de' Passeri. The Casa di Dante directed by professor Corrado Gizzi in Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, has worked these twenty years towards a rediscovery at all stages of Dante's Comedy and its connections to the visual arts. Until Sunday Castello Gizzi features "Dante istoriato, venti anni di ricerca iconografica dantesca" exhibition.