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Gran Sasso d'Italia
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Gran Sasso d'Italia (grän säs`sō dētä`lyä), mountain group of the central Apennines, in Abruzzi, central Italy. It rises to c.9,560 ft (2,914 m) in Monte Corno, the highest peak in the Apennines. Campo Imperatore, a mountaineering and skiing resort, may be reached by cable car. Mussolini was confined there after his fall from power but was rescued by German paratroopers.


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The mountain range of Gran Sasso rises grandiose, a bit out of scale, with about twenty peaks above 2000 metres a.
In the latest version of their experiment, known as DAMA/LIBRA, Bernabei and her colleagues analyzed faint flashes of light from 25 sodium iodide detectors at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory beneath the Apennines east of Rome.
 
 
 
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