Autostrada A24 (Italy)

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian. (August 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Italian article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,576 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Autostrada A24 (Italia)]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|it|Autostrada A24 (Italia)}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Autostrada A24
Autostrada dei Parchi
Route information
Maintained by ANAS
Length	166 km (103 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Rome
East end	Teramo
Location
Regions	Lazio, Abruzzo
Highway system
Roads in Italy Autostrade State Regional Provincial

The Autostrada A24, or Autostrada dei Parchi (“Parks Motorway”), is a motorway connecting Rome to Teramo. Starting at the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA - the Rome orbital motorway), the A24 runs broadly north-east past L'Aquila and through a 10 km tunnel under the Gran Sasso before reaching Teramo.

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 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 Lazio and Abruzzo as well as the Autostrada del Sole and the Autostrada Adriatica, the route currently finishes at Teramo, with the remainder of the distance to the Adriatic Sea still under construction. The highway includes two long tunnels under the 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 fulfilled the need to provide a fast and reliable connection between the capital and the central-eastern regions of the peninsula; until then, 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. ,

The route is currently managed by Strada dei Parchi S.p.A..

See also[]

Autostrada A25 (Italy)

Route[]

This article contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which should be presented in a properly formatted junction table. Please consult this guideline for information on how to create one. Please if you can. (December 2021)

A24 ROMA - TERAMO Autostrada dei Parchi
Exit	↓km↓	↑km↑	Province	European Road
	-	-	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
	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
Vicovaro - 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 -	143	23	TE
Toll Gate Teramo			TE
Basciano - Villa Vomano	156	10	TE
Val Vomano	159	7	TE
Teramo Bologna - Taranto	166	0	TE

External links[]

• Strada dei Parchi S.p.A. (in Italian)