St. Gabriel's shrine, Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia

Name: St. Gabriel's shrine
Address: Via del Santuario, 187, Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia, 64045, Italy
Telephone: +39 0861 97721

#1 among attractions in Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia

Top attraction, Temple, Church

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St. Gabriel's shrine, Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia

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The Sanctuary of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows is located at the foot of the Gran Sasso, in the municipality of Isola del Gran Sasso, in Teramo province, Abruzzo region, Italy. The shrine receives an average of 2 million visitors a year and is thus one of the 15 most visited sanctuaries in the world. ()

Local name: Santuario di San Gabriele dell'Addolorata Coordinates: 42°31'3"N, 13°39'27"E

Address

Via del Santuario, 187Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia 64045 Italy

Contact

+39 0861 97721

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Day trips

St. Gabriel's shrine – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Corno Grande, Monte Camicia, Prati di Tivo, Borexino.

5.7 miSW
Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain
Corno Grande, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
147 min walk • Corno Grande is the highest point in the Apennine Mountains, situated in Abruzzo, central Italy. Part of the Gran Sasso massif, it is the highest peak of the Italian Peninsula at 2,912 metres.
6.2 miSE
Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain
Monte Camicia, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
159 min walk • Monte Camicia is a mountain straddling the border between the province of Teramo and the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is part of the Gran Sasso d'Italia mountain chain.
5.2 miW
Park, Ski area, Aerial tramway
Prati di Tivo, Pietracamela
133 min walk • Prati di Tivo is a frazione in the Province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
6 miSW
Observatories and planetariums
Borexino, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
152 min walk • Borexino is a particle physics experiment to study low energy solar neutrinos. The detector is the world's most radio-pure liquid scintillator calorimeter.
6.3 miSW
Nature, Mountain
Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
161 min walk • Campo Imperatore is a mountain grassland or alpine meadow formed by a high basin shaped plateau located above Gran Sasso massif, the largest plateau of Apennine ridge.
6.5 miSW
Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain
Calderone glacier, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
166 min walk • The Calderone glacier is a glacier located in the Apennine Mountains in Abruzzo, Italy. Found in the Gran Sasso d'Italia mountain group, it lies just beneath the Corno Grande, the highest peak in the Apennines.
6.5 miSW
Mountain popular for skiing and climbing
Gran Sasso d'Italia, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
166 min walk • Gran Sasso d'Italia is a massif in the Apennine Mountains of Italy. Its highest peak, Corno Grande, is the highest mountain in the Apennines, and the second-highest mountain in Italy outside the Alps.
2 miN
Church
Church of Sant'Antonio Abate
51 min walk • The church of Sant'Antonio Abate is a religious building located in Tossicia, in the province of Teramo, within the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, in the central area of the Mavone Valley.
3.9 miNE
Church
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Ronzano
101 min walk • The church of Santa Maria di Ronzano stands isolated above a hill in the Mavone valley, in the locality of Ronzano, in the Abruzzo municipality of Castel Castagna, in the province of Teramo.
5.5 miSW
Hiking, Alpine hut
Rifugio Carlo Franchetti, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
140 min walk • The Carlo Franchetti refuge is the highest mountain refuge among those located on the Gran Sasso of Italy, located at 2,433 meters above sea level, on the Teramo side of the massif, in the territory of the municipality of Pietracamela, above the...
5.6 miSW
42°28'45"N • 13°33'36"E
Corno Piccolo, Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park
144 min walk • Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain