Collepietro: Altopiano di Navelli - Navelli - Civitaretenga - Caporciano - Castello di Bominaco - Via Civitaretenga - Via Caporciano
Few places in Abruzzo have a history as closely tied to the agricultural life of the Navelli Plateau as Collepietro. This hill settlement stands above the Altopiano di Navelli, a broad inland basin between Apennine massifs, where small towns and cultivated plots occupy the open floor. Nearby Caporciano encompasses Bominaco, noted for the Romanesque church of Santa Maria Assunta and the Oratory of San Pellegrino, whose medieval fresco cycle is among Abruzzo’s major artistic treasures. Navelli gives the plateau its name and is associated with the production of Abruzzo saffron. Collepietro, Civitaretenga and the roads toward Caporciano retain the compact stone-built character of the region’s historic upland communities.
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Collepietro straddles a ridge above the Navelli Plateau in inland Abruzzo, a defensible setting that shaped its dense medieval settlement. Stone houses and narrow lanes follow the compact outline of a castello-recinto, a fortified village form in which dwellings once helped create the outer defensive wall. The town belongs to the Apennine interior of the Province of L'Aquila, where open plateau country contrasts with the stony, elevated villages on its margins. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Collepietro relates to the Navelli Plateau and the wider Abruzzo interior.
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