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Tossicia and its territory are totally inserted in the "O" Zone of the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park and the Teramo-Atri Diocese. It stretches on the top of a rocky spur between the torrents of the Valle and the Chiarino, on the northern slope of the Gran Sasso. As for other Municipalities of the whole Teramo it is characterized by many fractions and districts.
The capital mainly consists of local stone buildings built between the 18th and 19th centuries. Among them, however, in the maze of narrow streets and alleys, there are many houses dating back to the medieval period bearing the Orsini family's sign or architraves decorated with noble and noble coats of arms, as well as architectures dating back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The surrounding landscape is predominantly hilly and mountainous, covered with lush forests and grazing areas, lined by numerous streams that flow into the Vomano and Mavone rivers.
Also worth visiting is the nearby village of Azzinano, famous throughout Italy as the town of murals and "games of the past", an open-air museum that is enriched each year with new works created by naive artists from all over Italy directly on walls of the houses of the village, where there is also the tradition of processing and marketing of lavender.
To complete the historical and naturalistic attractions of Tossicia also a large equestrian center, with camping for caravans and tents, football and tennis fields and paths for horseback riding in the Park. Among the most important cultural and folk events, the evocative historical re-enactment "I Mendoza in the Sicilian Valley", like the great bonfires that in honor of Sant'Antonio, on January 17, light up the villages of Tossicia and Villa Alzano every year.
The date of the foundation of the village is not clear, even if several historians date it back to the ninth century. During the Late Middle Ages the village belonged to the family of the Counts Pagliara, of the lineage of the Counts of the Marsi, who among the various descendants also had San Berardo, bishop and patron of Teramo, and his sister Santa Colomba. According to popular tradition, in 1217 Tossicia arrived in San Francesco d'Assisi commissioned by the bishop of Penne to settle the disputes between the local barons for dominion over the territory.
Along the domain of the Orsini family on Tossicia and the nearby townships, interrupted for the first time in 1495, when the Aquila militias, allied to the French during the descent of Charles VIII in Italy, devastated and sacked the districts of the country that surrendered allowing in 1496 the integration of Tossicia to the L'Aquila area. However, in 1502, Louis XII returned the village and the Sicilian Valley to Pardo Orsini.
A few years later, however, the Orsini family will again lose its prerogatives on the University of Tossicia, when in 1526 the emperor Charles V donated it, together with the whole Sicilian Valley, to Don Ferdinando Alarçon y Mendoza, Spanish leader who was asserted during the battle of Pavia of the previous year. The hegemony of the Mendoza family lasted for centuries, until the abolition of feudality of the early nineteenth century, and finally became the Municipality of the Royal Property of the Bourbons in 1806. In 1860 Tossicia entered the Kingdom of Italy following the plebiscite of 21 October of that year.
During the Second World War it became the site of a concentration camp operating from 21 October 1940 to 26 September 1943.
Like all the countries of the interior of Teramo, Tossicia binds its main dishes to the rural and mountain tradition. To note some appointments with the typical gastronomy of the territory for gourmets: in July and August the bean festival and the costatella in Tossicia, the timbale festival in the hamlet of Aquilano and that of the Tozzanella bruschetta. Although not having a real culinary specificity, in these parts are particularly appreciated and delicious beans with pork rind (pork rind), often combined with pork ribs to flavor even more the dish. The ingredients to make it are many but very simple, namely borlotti beans, carrots, celery, raw ham, pork rind, oil, tomato, onion and various aromas.
- Aquilano
- Azzinano
- C.da Collina San Giovanni
- Case di Renzo
- Chiarino
- Colledonico
- Contrada Canale
- Contrada Villa Alzano di Azzinano
- Flamignano
- Pàstino
- Paduli
- Piano dell’Addolorata
- Tossicia (City)
- Tozzanella
By Car
- From the North and South From the A14 exit at Teramo / Giulianova / Mosciano Sant'Angelo, take the SS80 Strada Statale del Gran Sasso towards Teramo, continue on the A24, exit at San Gabriele / Colledara and then take the SS491 towards Tossicia.
- From Rome Take the A24 towards Teramo, exit at San Gabriele / Colledara, follow the direction Tossicia taking the SS491.
