# Sextantio Cucina

Restaurant en Santo Stefano di Sessanio · Gran Sasso

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/where-to-eat/sextantio-cucina · Revisado: 2026-11-12

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Restaurant of the albergo diffuso in a palace in Santo Stefano di Sessanio, with a stone fireplace and traditional recipes gathered from the area's elders.

A dining room with history
The restaurant of the Sextantio albergo diffuso occupies a protected palace in Santo Stefano di Sessanio, restored with the same criteria as the rooms. The room has two large arches on columns and a central stone fireplace brought from the Baronia di Carapelle; above there was a workshop where wool was dyed. Many tables and chairs predate the 20th century and the ceramic tableware is made by a craft workshop. You enter through via Sotto gli Archi, a covered passage that crosses the village beneath the houses.
What you eat
The menu comes from a study commissioned from the Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo: interviews with the elders of Santo Stefano, Castelvecchio Calvisio, Calascio, Castel del Monte, Barisciano and Carapelle, which gathered more than seventy recipes not found in regional cookbooks. It is mountain, make-the-most-of-everything cooking: potatoes, pulses, wild herbs, bread, preserves. Part of the vegetables come from the house's garden. Don't come looking for arrosticini: for that, the Ristoro Mucciante.
Booking
Book by phone, on +39 0862 899116, by email or from its website. If you are sleeping at Sextantio, ask for the table when booking the room: in the village there are few alternatives at night.

Qué pedir: the menu of old recipes, with the area's pulses.

## Practical details

- Address: Via Sotto gli Archi, 67020 Santo Stefano di Sessanio, AQ
- Phone: +39 0862 899116
- Email: cucina@sextantio.it
- Cuisine: Abruzzese, traditional mountain cooking
- House specialities: Pulses and vegetables from the garden, Recipes from the pastoral cooking of the Baronia di Carapelle
- Bookings: https://www.sextantio.it/cucina/
- Details checked on 12 November 2026.

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Web: https://www.sextantio.it/cucina/
- Coordenadas: 42.3441, 13.6427

## Cerca de aquí

- [Santo Stefano di Sessanio, the Medici village](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/things-to-do/santo-stefano-di-sessanio), a 20 m
- [Sextantio Albergo Diffuso](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/where-to-stay/sextantio-albergo-diffuso), a 26 m
- [Rifugio della Rocca, albergo diffuso in Rocca Calascio](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/where-to-stay/rifugio-della-rocca), a 4.1 km
- [Ristorante Rifugio della Rocca](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/where-to-eat/rifugio-della-rocca-restaurant), a 4.1 km
- [Rocca Calascio, the fortress at 1,460 m](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/things-to-do/rocca-calascio), a 4.1 km
- [Campo Imperatore by car, from Fonte Cerreto to Castel del Monte](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/things-to-do/campo-imperatore-drive), a 6.4 km
- [Ristoro Mucciante](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/where-to-eat/ristoro-mucciante), a 6.6 km
- [Castel del Monte, the shepherds' village at the edge of the plateau](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso/things-to-do/castel-del-monte), a 7.3 km

## Consejos

### Ask about the village lentils
Santo Stefano has its own mountain lentil.

### Come by car and park at the entrance
The village is pedestrian and via Sotto gli Archi is in the centre.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### Do you need to book?
Yes, especially in season and at weekends: the dining room is small.

### Can people not staying at Sextantio eat there?
Yes, by booking a table.

Destino: [Gran Sasso](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/abruzzo/gran-sasso.md)