Avezzano, with its geographical position at the centre of Marsica, represents the ideal starting point for any tourist itineraries in the area. Apart from this, there are alternatives in the municipal area for different types of cultural routes. In this regard we recall that today Avezzano boasts a remarkable historical and architectural heritage, despite the great destruction of the early twentieth century caused by the Gioia dei Marsi earthquake in 1915 and the Allied bombing in 1944.

On an architectural-urbanistic level, Avezzano has certainly changed from the old nineteenth century city centre, moving its axis further north. However, in these hundred years after the earthquake several architectural assets have been recovered and restored: for example the Avezzano Castle, recovered on its ground floor and today home to numerous cultural conferences; the ancient San Giovanni Decollato Church, dating back to the 13th century; Palazzo Torlonia, which, destroyed in the 1915 earthquake in its nineteenth-century style, was then rebuilt by the Torlonia family in the new liberty version of the early twentieth century.

Over the past twenty years the ancient Tunnels of Claudius, the largest and most important archaeological monument in Marsica, even superior to the Roman city of Alba Fucens, have also been recovered and restored. This monument has been restored in a noteworthy archaeological-architectural itinerary, around which a park has been set up that enhances its history. At the same time, a farm-villa from the Roman period came to light near I Marsi shopping centre. In addition to this, the century-old buildings of the Palazzo del Comune, the Palazzo di Giustizia and the Marsi cathedral of San Bartolomeo are also to be admired.

The sanctuary of the Madonna di Pietraquaria deserves a separate mention, dating back to the 17th century as for the construction and even to the 10th century as for the early settlement. The structure of the sanctuary that we see today is the same as in previous centuries, and this is due to the fact that the structure miraculously survived both the 1915 earthquake and the 1944 bombing.

In addition to this, monumental structures include the Torlonia Pavilion, dating from the late nineteenth century, present inside Villa Torlonia and surviving as a structure to the 1915 earthquake; the gardens of Palazzo Torlonia and Piazza Torlonia, real urban-environmental monuments; the former sugar factory, previously the heart of the ancient early-twentieth-century industrial centre and today a monument of industrial archaeology; Piazza Risorgimento, the heart of the new city centre with its recently restored monumental fountain; Villa Palazzi located along Via Garibaldi and an authentic anti-seismic urban monument, having been the only structure in the city to remain standing under the blows of the 1915 earthquake.

In the municipal area worthy of note is the historic centre of Antrosano, a small hamlet of Avezzano, but with a long history behind it. Antrosano, situated on the other side of the Alba Fucens hill, is in fact one of the villages built after the destruction of Alba Fucens by Charles of Anjou in 1268.

The inhabitants of the town, dispersed in the neighbouring territories, erected several new villages, including Antrosano, which from then on has always constituted a medium-sized village halfway between Alba Fucens and Avezzano. The village of Antrosano, despite the serious destruction that occurred in the 1915 earthquake, was largely recovered and made active again. Here is the ancient mother church of Santa Croce, dating back to 1768 and towering over the village with its marvellous bell towers.

Finally we point out the presence of several ancient sepulchral areas emerged here and there in the Avezzano territory, such as the funerary monuments of Valle Solegara, a town situated on the southern side of Colle Pettorino between Antrosano and Alba Fucens, or the necropolis in the Cretaro-Brecciara area found during the works for the freight village. The tombs date back to the 8th-7th century BC and to the Republican period of Rome (509-27 BC).