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POPULATION 110
ELEVATION 910 mt

At the entrance to the Gran Sasso national park, this town is immersed in the woods. The town still contains features from ancient houses, ruins of enclosed walls, and buildings with portals that have pointed arches.

HISTORICAL FACTS
The town has origins that date back to the time of the Romans. It was long under the dominion of the Counts of Celano and then the Piccolomini. Although archaeological evidence testify to the habitation of the site already in ancient Roman times, the first historical sources relative to Carapelle Calvisio date back to the 9th-13th centuries. It passed to the family of Lionello di Acclozamora ai Piccolomini, to Ottaviano Cattaneo ai Medici di Firenze.

WHAT TO SEE
To see is the church of S. Francesco d'Assisi with a façade that dates from the 15th-17th centuries and on the inside there are baroque decorations. A few kilometers from the town is the well-worth visiting shrine of San Pancrazio.

FESTIVITIES
12 May: Feast of S. Pancrazio
15 August: Feast of the emigrants

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