The 16th century fresco discovered 45 years ago in the demolished church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Fontechiari shows the rural population's request for protection from the saints. In the centre is Saint Anthony Abbot, the patron saint of animals, especially pigs, since the death of the pig meant hunger for the winter. On the left, the Madonna [...]
The Agostini family was one of the most important families of the 19th century rural bourgeoisie in our territory. With the Napoleonic laws and the Unification of Italy, they acquired immense patrimonies by auctioning off ecclesiastical, state, etc. property. The progenitor was Don Giovanni Antonio D'Agostino, a ’physical surgeon“ from Casalvieri who in 1743 married Rosa Anna Simeone of twenty [...].
Lake Posta Fibreno, locality Acqua Azzurra: here the water always has a blue colour that fades to light blue and light blue, with the sun, with the rain, day or night. There used to be a monastery here, one of the ancient monastic cells with which the Benedictines had strewn our territory and which gave their name to the [...]
In popular usage, the name Val di Comino is used to designate a small region in northern Campania, essentially corresponding to the upper Melfa valley, almost entirely surrounded by a cloister of limestone mountains (Apennines and Sub-Apennines) except to the south-west, where a depression (350-450 m) connects this kind of basin with the territory of Sora; [...].
Sant'Angelo in Pesco Mascolino was the first Benedictine monastic community in the Comino Valley, on the border between Casalvieri and Casalattico towards the Melfa Gorges. The monastery was abandoned about 600 years ago. It had grown to more than one hundred monks who, in the breaks between the ora et labora, hosted local women, sensitive to the [...]