Two-day festival for abruzzese wines. Today at hotel villaggio Acea, Rivisondoli, a sommelier meeting and tomorrow in Roccaraso, in the municipality, a congress on "Vini d'Abruzzo: progetti per il 2000"and a workshop with 30 wine producers and 200 enterpreneurs from Central Italy.

A two-year course in the renowned Scuola Alberghiera will prepare cooks specialized in diets for metabolic diseases like diabetes. A first group of chefs got their diplomas this year

A historical research was performed by the local junior high school under the guidance of prof. Franca Nuccio and the cooperation of the State Archive on literacy, taxes and burial problems after the Saint Cloud Edict.

Youngest son of a mason, Garzia left Abruzzo at 15 in 1958 and started a construction business in France. Then he learned the accordion under the guidance of Maestro Renè Riche and became famous with his orchestra in France. Back to his native place, he has now made a CD of Abruzzese music with the old friends who stayed in Cugnoli.