Golf Club "Moda Cri Cri"

Rivisondoli sits high in the Apennine mountains of Abruzzo, a region that most traveling golfers overlook entirely — which is precisely what makes finding a course here feel like a genuine discovery. The village itself is better known as a winter ski destination, perched above 1,300 meters in the Parco Nazionale della Maiella, and the surrounding landscape of beech forests, open meadows, and rugged mountain ridges gives any round here a character that flatter, more manicured circuits simply cannot replicate.

The "Moda Cri Cri" name is unusual enough to signal that this is not a conventional club operation, and the setting confirms it — this is mountain golf at a modest, unpretentious scale, the kind of layout where the terrain itself is the architect and the scenery does most of the heavy lifting. Expect firm, sometimes uneven lies, and conditions shaped by an altitude that shortens the season considerably.

Abruzzo golf remains genuinely off the beaten path even by Italian standards, which suits a certain kind of player perfectly — someone more interested in where they are than what their handicap is doing.