Campli

Pilgrims climb the Scala Santa of Campli on their knees: 28 olive-wood steps that, since a papal brief of 1772, carry the same indulgence as the Holy Stairs in Rome. The town runs along a ridge in the Teramo hills, close to the Gran Sasso and the Laga mountains, and prospered as a Farnese fief. Every August since 1964 it has held the Sagra della porchetta italica.

Highlights

• The Scala Santa, its 28 steps framed by frescoes of the Passion (IT)
• The 14th-century Palazzo Farnese, once the town's parliament building
• Archaeological museum finds from the Campovalano necropolis and its 600 tombs (IT)
• Porta Orientale in the Castelnuovo quarter, the only surviving town gate
• Sagra della porchetta italica in August, Abruzzo's first food festival of its kind

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