Scanno

Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mario Giacomelli photographed Scanno's lanes and people, and a Giacomelli picture taken here, the Scanno Boy, entered New York's MoMA in 1964. The stone town climbs a slope of the Montagna Grande at about 1,050 metres, above the lake that shares its name, near the Abruzzo national park. Local women's traditional dress, with its turban-like headdress, shows an Eastern influence.

Highlights

• Lago di Scanno, a natural lake with watersports and a legend of a witch
• Madonna del Lago chapel, built into the rock above the lake road
• Santa Maria della Valle, a Romanesque church with medieval fresco traces
• The Gole del Sagittario nature reserve on the road up
• Scanno's traditional chocolate and almond biscuit

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.