Danilo Di Luca from Spoltore, fair-haired handsome and talkative, is the new hero of Abruzzese road cycling. he won the section of the Giro d'Italia from Peschici to Gargano. Is next goal is the maglia rosa. Today the Giro reaches Vasto, in Abruzzo.

Paolo De Girolamo, 41, professor of Ingegneria Costiera e Marittima at the Facoltà d'Ingegneria dell'Aquila is the coordinator of Progetto Ricama, aiming at involving all interested official parties to give solutions to the problems of the erosion of Abruzzese coasts. The Project will follow three points: localize risk areas, planning the connected coast, intervention establishing a kind of Land Use Register for the Coast.

Three days in Ancarano and Ascoli Piceno for the study meeting "Il confine nel tempo". Enlightment reformer Giuseppe Maria Galanti already in the earlt 1800's emphasized the difference between the social conditions of the two regions: in Marches order, symmetry, welfare for farmers, lively trade. More miserable the conditions of the Abruzzese. The Tronto river marked throughout the 19th century the borderline between North and South of Italy. Many Abruzzese borderline centres (Accumoli, Ancarano, Nereto, Valle Castellana, Civitella del Tronto) in Abruzzo requested to pass to the jurisdiction of Marches.

Tommaso Monaco, elderly farmer domiciled in San Tommaso di Ortona with wife Giuseppina Lanci underwent successful surgery for two hernias under local anesthesia. The doctors say he also spoke during surgery, which is very exceptional and risky at his age.