Sepino

Below Sepino lie the ruins of Saepinum, a Roman town on the sheep track from Pescasseroli to Candela, where shepherds lived among the old walls and flocks still walked the main street in the 1950s. The present village grew up on a wooded hill at 698 metres in the Matese foothills after the Roman town was abandoned. Its main church, Santa Cristina, has an onion-shaped spire in Neapolitan style.

Highlights

• The archaeological site of Saepinum at Altilia, with its forum and theatre
• Porta Bojano, a Roman gate carved with two captive Germans
• Farmhouses built into the curve of the Roman theatre
• Santa Cristina's 1570 crypt and the Carafa treasury chapel
• The convent of the Santissima Trinità at Petrilli

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