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Autostrada A24 (Italy)

Controlled-access highway in Italy

Summary

Controlled-access highway in Italy

Field	Value
country	ITA
type	A
route	24
alternate_name	Strada dei Parchi
Parks motorway
established	1969
direction_a	West
terminus_a	Rome
junctions	[[File:Autostrada A 90 Italia.svg	23px]] A90 in Rome
[[File:Autostrada A1 Italia.svg	23px]] A1 in Tivoli
[[File:Autostrada A25 Italia.svg	23px]] A25 in Tagliacozzo
direction_b	East
terminus_b	Teramo
length_km	166
regions	Lazio, Abruzzo
map	Italia - mappa autostrada A24.svg
e-road	E80
previous_type	A
previous_route	23
next_type	A
next_route	25

Parks motorway | e-road = E80

The Autostrada A24, or Strada dei Parchi ("Parks motorway") is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") 166 km long in Italy located in the regions of Lazio and Abruzzo connecting Rome to Teramo, near the Adriatic Sea. Starting from the Grande Raccordo Anulare (A90 or GRA – the Rome orbital motorway), the A24 runs broadly north-east across the Abruzzese Apennine Mountains. Between L'Aquila and Teramo it passes through the 10 km Gran Sasso Tunnel. The private company Strada dei Parchi S.p.A. currently manages the motorway. The name "Parks Motorway" comes from the fact that the Maiella National Park, the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park and the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park can be reached from this motorway. It is a part of the E80 European route.

Near the Lazio and Abruzzo border the Autostrada A25 splits from the A24 and reaches the Adriatic Coast at Pescara.

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 Gran Sasso Tunnel, 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 A1 and the Autostrada A14, the motorway ends at Teramo, about 17 kilometres (10 mi) far from the Autostrada A14, This gap is covered by a freeway since the early 2000's.

The highway includes three long tunnels under the highest Appennine mountain, the Gran Sasso massif, on a south west/north east axis, with each tunnel just over 6.3 miles in length. Two of the tunnels are part of the Traforo del Gran Sasso, while the third tunnel, dug adjacent the two highway tunnels, hosts 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 the winding State roads Salaria, Flaminia and Tiburtina Valeria.

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.

Route

Autostrada A24 between [[Borgorose]] and [[Tagliacozzo

Exit	↓km↓	↑km↑	Province	European Road
[[Image:AB-Kreuz-grün.svg]] Grande Raccordo Anulare	0 km	166 km	RM
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Settecamini
Via Tiburtina	7 km	159 km	RM
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Lunghezza	15 km	151 km	RM
Toll gate Roma Est	15 km	151 km	RM
Rest area "Colle del Tasso"	17 km	149 km	RM
[[Image:AB-Kreuz-grün.svg]] [[Image:Autostrada A1 Italia.svg	23px]] Milano - Napoli	18 km	148 km	RM
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Tivoli
Via Tiburtina	20 km	146 km	RM
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Castel Madama	31 km	135 km	RM
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Vicovaro - Mandela	40 km	126 km	RM
Rest area "Civita"	54 km	112 km	AQ
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Carsoli - Oricola	57 km	109 km	AQ
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Tagliacozzo	68 km	97 km	AQ
[[Image:AB-Kreuz-grün.svg]] [[Image:Autostrada A25 Italia.svg	23px]] Pescara - Chieti
Maiella National Park
Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park	72 km	94 km	RI
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Valle del Salto
Salto Cicolana - Rieti	75 km	91 km	RI
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Tornimparte
del Parco Regionale Sirente-Velino
Campo Felice	92 km	74 km	AQ
Rest area "Valle Aterno"	106 km	60 km	AQ
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] L'Aquila Ovest
del Gran Sasso d'Italia - Teramo
dell'Appennino Abruzzese ed Appulo-Sannitico - Antrodoco	108 km	58 km	AQ
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] L'Aquila Est
Tangenziale Est dell'Aquila - Pescara	114 km	52 km	AQ
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Assergi
Campo Imperatore
Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park	117 km	42 km	AQ
[[File:Italian_traffic_signs_-_galleria.svg	20x20px]] Traforo del Gran Sasso	118 km	40 km	AQ/TE
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Colledara - San Gabriele
St. Gabriel's shrine
Isola del Gran Sasso d'Italia - Castelli
Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park	143 km	23 km	TE
Toll gate Teramo	147 km	11 km	TE
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Basciano - Villa Vomano
ex di Bisenti - Bisenti
Piceno-Aprutina - Teramo
Piceno-Aprutina - Chieti	156 km	10 km	TE
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Val Vomano
della Valle del Vomano - Roseto degli Abruzzi	159 km	7 km	TE
[[Image:AB-AS-grün.svg]] Teramo
[[Image:Autostrada A14 Italia.svg	18px]] Bologna - Taranto	166 km	0 km	TE

References

(2021). "European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring: Special Collection of 2020 Papers". Springer Nature.
Baron, Zach. (May 9, 2017). "How A24 is Disrupting Hollywood". [[GQ]].

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