Images from Assergi, Abruzzo

It hosts the headquarters of the National Park Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, and a couple of km from the cableway which leads to Campo Imperatore. The village has a nice medieval historical center, and the 12th-century church of Santa Maria Assunta is typically inserted in the defence walls.

[The photos were taken at different moments in the years before 1998, by photographer Gigi Carraro of Pavia]