Once the largest Sik base in Italy facing ruin: “We are closing the mountain”.. As of: March 9, 2024, 4:42 p.m By: Moritz Bletzinger CommentsPressSplit Winter in Abruzzo: What once attracted countless tourists is no longer attractive for holidaymakers today.

“The March snow won’t stay,” Maurizio Monaco tells the newspaper La Repubblica, one of the few inns that is even open at the beginning of March. In Monta Livata there is neither running water nor a reservoir.