Autostrada A24 (Italy)

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Autostrada A24
Autostrada dei Parchi
ANAS
Length166 km (103 mi)
Major junctions
West endRome
East endTeramo
Location
CountryItaly
RegionsLazio, Abruzzo
Highway system

The Autostrada A24, or Autostrada dei Parchi (“Parks Motorway”), is a

Gran Sasso before reaching Teramo
. Strada dei Parchi S.p.A. currently manages the route.

It is constructed in an almost completely hilly and mountainous territory with a complex orography. For this reason, the motorway required the adoption of daring civil engineering solutions, with extensive stretches utilising viaducts[1] and 42 tunnels (four of which are longer than 4 km) including the double tunnel of the Gran Sasso, whose length (10.174 km for the northern tunnel, 10.175 km the southern) made it the longest double-tube road tunnel in Europe, as well as the longest road tunnel in Italy entirely in the national territory.

First planned in 1973 to connect

Gran Sasso massif, running roughly on a south west/north east axis, with each tunnel just over 6.3 miles in length. A third tunnel, dug adjacent to the two highway tunnels, houses the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
(National Laboratories of the Gran Sasso), the largest underground particle physics laboratory in the world.

Together with the A25, it provides a fast and reliable connection between the capital and the central-eastern regions of the peninsula; previously, the natural subdivision imposed by the highest peaks of the Apennines had made travel between the two seas difficult, slow and treacherous. The A24 reduced the isolation of Abruzzo from the Tyrrhenian regions, and together with the A25 became the main link between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic in central Italy. Until its completion, communications took place mainly via Salaria, Flaminia and Tiburtina Valeria. Due to the particular infrastructure in place (viaducts and tunnels), the hilly-mountain environment and necessary maintenance, it has one of the highest tolls of motorways in Italy.

A24, a film company based in the United States, is named after the Autostrada A24. Daniel Katz, the founder of the company, chose this name because he decided to create the company while driving on the A24.[2]

Route

A24 ROMA - TERAMO
Autostrada dei Parchi
Exit ↓km↓ ↑km↑ Province European Road
Tangenziale Est Roma - - RM
Via di Portonaccio - Casalbertone - - RM
Via F. Fiorentini - Via Prenestina - - RM
Viale Palmiro Togliatti - - RM
Via di Tor Cervara - - RM
Grande Raccordo Anulare 0 166 RM
Settecamini 7 159 RM
Lunghezza 15 151 RM
Toll Gate Roma Est 15 151 RM
Rest Area "Colle del Tasso" 17 149 RM
Milano - Napoli 18 148 RM
Tivoli
20 146 RM
Castel Madama 31 135 RM
Mandela
40 126 RM
Rest Area "Civita" 54 112 AQ
Carsoli - Oricola 57 109 AQ
Tagliacozzo 68 x AQ
Pescara - Chieti
72 94 AQ
Valle del Salto
Rieti
75 91 AQ
Tornimparte
Campo Felice
92 74 AQ
Rest Area "Valle Aterno" 106 60 AQ
L'Aquila Ovest 108 58 AQ
L'Aquila Est 114 52 AQ
Assergi 124 42 AQ
Colledara - San Gabriele 143 23 TE
Toll Gate Teramo TE
Basciano - Villa Vomano 156 10 TE
Val Vomano 159 7 TE
Bologna - Taranto
166 0 TE

See also

References

  1. ^ .
  2. ^ Baron, Zach (May 9, 2017). "How A24 is Disrupting Hollywood". GQ. Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2019.

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