page_title: Gran Sasso d'Italia
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Gran Sasso d'Italia / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: Panoramic view from Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso National Park.
context_page_description: 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. The mountain lies within Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park.
context_section_description: The Gran Sasso is located in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park.  Running through this nature preserve is a portion of the Italian State Highway 80 (SS80), known as the Grand Highway of the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park ("Strada maestra del Parco").
  While frequented by skiers in winter, and mountain climbers and hikers in other seasons, the Gran Sasso is remarkably free of tourists despite its proximity to Rome and the events of the Gran Sasso raid that took place there in 1943.  This is especially true in summer with most Italians preferring  beach vacations  and foreign visitors more likely to visit the mountains of northern Italy.
  Pope John Paul II loved to secretly ski at Gran Sasso where he would retire often and pray at the church of San Pietro della Ienca. When he died Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, gave the local Abruzzo community some of the late pontiff's blood as a token of the love he had felt for the mountainous area.
  The Shrine of Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows at Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia with average of 2 million visitors per year is one of the 15 most visited sanctuaries in the world.
  Acclaimed international movies shot at Gran Sasso include Jean-Jacques Annaud's The name of the Rose, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Red Sonja, Ladyhawke, King David, Keoma and The Barbarians.
caption: A panoramic view of Campo Imperatore.
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