Fornelli

Fornelli still looks like the walled village it was, its circuit of round watchtowers entered through the gateway of a 17th-century fortified palace where Charles III of Bourbon stayed in 1744. It sits on a hill skirted by the Vandra stream, and its olive oil has earned it the title of Città dell'Olio. A torchlit walk each October remembers six men hanged here in 1943.

Highlights

• The castle-palace with two watchtowers and a monumental gateway
• The town walls with round, battered watchtowers
• Chiesa Madre of San Michele Arcangelo, with three restored 18th-century panels
• Local olive oil, the reason Fornelli is a Città dell'Olio
• The October torchlit procession for the martyrs of 1943

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