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Extract from the L'Aquila Travel Guides:
L'AQUILA
is a pleasant mountain town overlooked by the bulk of the Gran Sasso mountain and is the main access point to the national park of the same name. The city was founded by a German emperor, and the story of its foundation is itself worthy of a Brothers Grimm fairy-tale: in 1242 Frederick II drew together the populations from 99 Abruzzesi villages to form a new city. Each village built its own church, piazza and quarter: there's a medieval fountain with 99 spouts, and the town-hall clock still chimes 99 times every night.
L'Aquila may no longer be the city of 99 churches, most of them having been destroyed in earthquakes,...
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