L`Aquila (It-L`Aquila.ogg, meaning `The Eagle`) is a city and comune in central Italy, both the capital city of the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L`Aquila. {As of|2012}, it has a population of 68,304 inhabitants. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the Aterno river, it is surrounded by the Apennine Mountains...