It is the long-term prospect of rebuilding that worries many.The recent quakes rattled already frazzled nerves and transformed L’Aquila into “a desert island,” her cousin and co-owner, Peppe Colaneri, said, and the meager earnings of the last two months have been laughable compared with their investment.Some €4.6 billion has already been spent on rebuilding private homes, and dozens of cranes pepper the city’s skyline, a constant reminder of the renovation downtown. Book your tickets online for the top things to do in L'Aquila, Italy on Tripadvisor: See 3,546 traveler reviews and photos of L'Aquila tourist attractions. “We need a vision that starts from public space.”“We will rebuild everything,” the prime minister wrote on his website, adding that a government decree would be issued on Friday to streamline the bureaucracy surrounding reconstruction. The city was founded about 1240 by the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II and became an episcopal see in 1257. 750 inhabitants Postal code: 67025 Dialing Area Code: +39 0862 How to reach it: by road, SS17 from L'Aquila or Pescara; by bus, from L'Aquila. Visit top-rated & must-see attractions. In all, the reconstruction of L’Aquila and its suburbs is expected to cost €8 billion.For the most part, the outskirts of the city have been redeveloped and repopulated, complete with parking hassles and traffic jams.Critics say that the decision to construct new towns, rather than focus on rebuilding the historic center, was the most significant misstep in L’Aquila’s renewal, displacing funds and unraveling the city’s social fabric, possibly irreparably.But there are sizable patches of the old city where time has stood still. L'Aquila The Province of L'Aquila is the largest, most mountainous and least densely populated province of the Abruzzo region of Southern Italy.It comprises about half the landmass of Abruzzo and occupies the western part of the region. Since then, reconstruction of this regional capital of 72,000 still hobbles on. Cities, towns, and other municipalities in the Abruzzo region of Italy . If L’Aquila has seen a frenzy of activity, the same cannot be said for many of the 60 odd towns in its environs that were badly damaged in 2009.So far, 130 million euros (about $143 million) have been earmarked to deal with the immediate effects of the 2016 earthquakes, which killed nearly 300, and Mr. Renzi said on Monday that better shelters — made from shipping containers — would be available by Christmas.After that, the homeless will be placed in temporary wooden houses while their permanent homes are rebuilt. We have reviews of the best places to see in L'Aquila. “We have the money, the will, too.”Dismissing negative assessments, Roberto Di Vincenzo, the coordinator of Officina L’Aquila, a project to promote best reconstruction practices, said that in Italy “it is always easier to destroy than to build.”City officials say that after a bumpy start, reconstruction has been on a more positive track since the Italian government made funding available.“The major mistake was the creation of new towns” that decentralized the city, said Antonio Perrotti, a local architect. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in August. Most of those people — some 15,400 residents — have opted to remain in makeshift dormitories in sports centers or in tents near their hometowns, rather than being transferred to hotels on the coast.Although the words were welcome, they were unlikely to inspire complete confidence among residents of Norcia and the other towns hit by the most recent quakes. And the city’s infrastructure was not adequately reinforced, he said, citing a lack of sidewalks and public transportation, as well as areas for citizens to congregate in the Italian tradition.Work on the monumental areas of the city’s historic center, a tight grid of grand palazzos and elegant churches, has picked up considerably in the last two years — so much that L’Aquila is now the largest construction site in Italy.“Everything is so broken that it’s going to take a long time,” she said.Then there are the places that not even time may help restore. Yet much of it still feels like a ghost town, a sobering sign for cities struck by more recent quakes. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. L'Aquila (/ ˈ l æ k w ɪ l ə / LAK-wil-ə, Italian: [ˈlaːkwila] (); meaning "The Eagle") is a city and comune in central Italy. Abruzzi, regione, central Italy, fronting the Adriatic Sea and comprising the provincie of L’Aquila, Chieti, Pescara, and Teramo. Tourists in L'Aquila come mostly from Italy. Surnames in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo Region The surnames have been derived from the white pages of the 1990's for the recent lists, and from sources as indexes of births, "numerazioni" and catasti for previous centuries. It is currently home to the National Museum of Abruzzo. The victims need look no farther than L’Aquila, about 60 miles south, for a sobering reminder of unfulfilled promises and of the challenges ahead. Not least, L’Aquila’s reconstruction was marred by cases of corruption, murky questions involving subcontracting and investigations into the involvement of criminal organizations.Seven years after their city was destroyed, “We never thought that we’d still be fighting against the earthquake,” Ms. Colaneri said.Here, on April 6, 2009, an earthquake killed 309 people.