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Extract from the Fonte Cerreto Travel Guides:
Bus #6 from L'Aquila's Corso Vittorio Emanuele runs regularly up to
FONTE CERRETO
, the gateway to Campo Imperatore - basically two hotels, a restaurant and a campsite clustered around a cable car station. Most of these were built in the Thirties as part of Mussolini's scheme to keep Italians fit by encouraging them to take exercise in the mountains. Ironically, he was imprisoned here in 1943, first at the
Villetta
inn in Fonte Cerreto, and then at the
Albergo-Rifugio Campo Imperatore
, a grim hotel at the top of the cable car route. Apparently it was with some trepidation that Mussolini stepped in...
read the whole Fonte Cerreto Travel Guides...
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