Pacentro

Three square towers of the Caldora castle still rise over Pacentro, a stone village on low hills above the Peligna valley and Sulmona, just below Monte Morrone. Its lanes hold baroque churches, an 18th-century fountain carved with human faces and the house of Madonna's grandparents, who emigrated in 1919. Each September the village's young people race barefoot down a rough hillside in the Corsa degli Zingari.

Highlights

• Castello Caldora, Norman in origin and strengthened by Jacopo Caldora and the Orsini
• The Corsa degli Zingari, a barefoot race on the first Sunday of September
• Santa Maria Maggiore, with a white stone baroque façade and slender medieval bell tower
• A medieval fresco of Pope Celestine V on the façade of San Marcello
• Walks in the Majella National Park, known here for its mountain springs

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.