"The Gran Sasso of Italy - Opera periodic natural and economic sciences", in an article in 1839, pays attention "to a unique land ... a land that white like a clay impregnated water" and "a sulfur spring on the slope of the mountain" overlooking an ancient land of Abruzzo, Civitella Casanova, which owes its name to the most important of the five Cistercian abbeys fate in our region and now in ruins.

Civitella Casanova is an Italian town of inland mountain of 1,950 inhabitants in the province of Pescara in Abruzzo and belongs to the mountain community Vestina. Listed on the National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga (in the District of Great Abbeys, which is home) and the Regional Reserve Voltigno and Valle d'Angri, a regional reserve included in the National Park, the country bases its economy mainly on agriculture. It has pre-Roman origins of repute, the sources of the historian Livy emerges as the town of Civitella was called Cutina or Cingilia (no one knows if it was anciently called Cutina then changing the name in Cingilia, or if the old part of town today said Terravecchia, had the name Cutina and the rest of the country in Cingilia, or if the two toponyms were equal).