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CANSANO


Cansano rises in a territory at the edge of the Maiella National Park , between Sulmona and Campo di Giove. It is mountainous and is hidden in a rugged landscape, on which it impends the majestic Maiella.

The green in the spring, the blue of the summer sky, the warm colors in the autumn and the white in the winter make a unique and fascinating landscape, dominated by a splendid and uncontaminated nature.

The town has its origin from an ancient fortified suburb which has characterized, with its medieval architecture, the urbanistic order of the town. Going toward the historical center of town, and turning into the sixteenth century "Head Door or Main Entrance", called also "Arks de Buseche",

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the time stops and one's facial expression shows enchantment from looking at alleys, crossroads and the characteristic view.


Descending the stairway that leads to the "Downtown Door” said "Portaiova", ,

the reality, the memories, and the imagination take us to a life by now distant from these places; in fact, in reaching the little square, the silence is broken only by be gushing water of the fountain, "Fountain of the Herd",

and at some higher elevation one hears the sound from the fountain of the district “Undenare”.

What has remained of the castle and of the church of St. Salvatore , with its Baptistry of the fifteenth century, are certainly the most beautiful places to visit.

 

 

 

 

 

Recent archaeological excavations, in the place "Tavuto- Polmare", they have brought to light a templar area of notable interest. Findings of the age of the iron and consistent remains of pre-Roman fortifications .Fai clic per visitare il museo

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(Hill Sant'Angelo and Mount Mitra ) are proof of the presence of man in the territory of Cansano , already an archaic epoch. Particularly, the recent acquisitions of archaeological character in the place Tavuto provide a more precise picture of the zone in the Italic and Roman epoch, for which, sporadic discoveries had already furnished in the past rather uncertain data.

More than one researcher holds certain that a consistent Longobard settlement near the present village existed, hypothesis supported by some toponymy and by the cult of Sant'Angelo, protector of the Longobard race, to which a church was erected around the year 1000 A.D

The most ancient written document about the village dates back to 933 A.D.; often in these documents of the first Middle Ages, the name “castrum” is indifferently quoted as “Canzano” and “Cansano.”

It is also to remember that in the Middle Ages period, the small village of Pacile , risen on the ruins of the Italic settlement Mount Mitra , is currently separated territorially between Pettorano and Cansano.

In the following centuries, the small fief, as the majority of the neighboring villages, were dominated and divided among various seignories. From a native tower of defense and sighting, risen in the medieval period, a real “castrum” was developed, and beginning from the XVI century, further building developments denoted definitely the urbanization of the town.