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unusual facts about Gran Sasso



GALLEX

The experiment's main components, the tank and the counters, were located in the underground astrophysical laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in the Italian Abruzzo province, near L'Aquila, and situated inside the 2912 metres high Gran Sasso mountain.

Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park

The Grand Highway of the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park runs through the park between the Gran Sasso mountain peak and the chain known as Monti della Laga.

Pierluigi Bini

He was known for his climbs on the walls of the Gran Sasso and especially for his climb on the "dihedral of Mephisto" on the east face of Corno Grande (The Paretone).

Slepcev Storch

The designer has a keen interest in Second World War history and wanted to use an example of his Storch design to re-enact the 12 September 1943 rescue of Benito Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny and his SS commandos from his imprisonment by Italian partisans on the Gran Sasso mountain.


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