Casalbore
5 places
- History & archaeology
Santuario sannitico di Macchia Porcara
Casalbore (AV)
Beside a spring surface the remains of an Italic temple from the Samnite age, dedicated to Mefite, goddess of waters and fertility, and destroyed in the time of Hannibal.
History & archaeologyPonte di Santo Spirito
Casalbore (AV)
A pier and a few remains in the Miscano valley: this is all that survives of a Roman bridge on the via Traiana, the stretch of the Appia now recognised as a UNESCO heritage site.
- Sacred art
Grotta di San Michele Arcangelo (Casalbore)
Casalbore (AV)
A cavity hollowed out of the living rock, a stage on the Via Sacra Langobardorum towards the Gargano: here Lombard pilgrims stopped to pray to the warrior Archangel, one thousand three hundred years ago.
- History & archaeology
Tempio italico e Castello Normanno di Casalbore
Casalbore (AV)
A Samnite sanctuary and a Norman tower a few steps apart: three thousand years of history stacked on a single hill.
- Sacred art
Santuario di Santa Maria dei Bossi
Casalbore (AV)
A country church in the middle of the woods, along the Pescasseroli-Candela drove road, built on top of a 2nd-century Roman funerary monument: faith resting on pagan bones.