"The Abruzzo lies 70 miles east of Rome, between the Apennines and the Adriatic... mountainous region of Italy, covering 700,000 sq miles... Four national parks cover a third of its territory, with 37 nature reserves and 80 per cent of all Europe's flora and fauna species, including lady's slipper orchid [Cypripedium calceolus]....
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