Guardia Sanframondi
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VillagesGuardia Sanframondi
Guardia Sanframondi (BN)
A borgo (old village) of wine and silences, every seven years it wakes for the Riti di Penitenza, when the battenti (flagellant penitents) walk the alleys and the town turns medieval again for a week.
- History & archaeology
Museo delle Farfalle
Guardia Sanframondi (BN)
More than a thousand butterflies from every continent, collected out of passion by the lawyer Pascasio Parente and arranged in silent cases in the heart of the Samnite borgo.
- Sacred art
Santuario dell'Assunta e i Riti Settennali dei Battenti
Guardia Sanframondi (BN)
Every seven years the hooded men come out of the Rione Croce and beat their chests with sponges bristling with pins, until they bleed, before the Assunta. The last time was August 2024: the next is in 2031.