Loreto Aprutino: the perfect village

Meet the guide at the National Monument of Santa Maria in Piano. Input and explanation. The church is without a doubt the most interesting monument, as well as the most studied of Loreto Aprutino. Its importance is mainly due to the painting on the counter, it is the Judgement, restraint dimensions, one of the largest of Abruzzo.

It continues through the medieval town of Loreto Aprutino where you will visit: the hall of the Palazzo Chiola Cascella, built on the ruins of the ancient castle, where there is a painting by Tommaso Cascella depicting the traditional and unique celebration of the Holy

Patron of the country: San Zopito; the Church of St. Peter the Apostle, the mother church of Loreto Aprutino whose foundation dates back to around 1066; Unripe Museum, the largest collection of existing Castelli ceramics, incorporated as a private collection in 1957 by Baron James unripe. It includes nearly 600 pieces made between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century's most important ceramists of Abruzzo, the Oil Museum housed in the Palazzo Amorotti playing a mill of the late nineteenth century.

                     The tour ends with a tasting of extra virgin olive oil at one of the local companies as the country is one of the symbols of geography, culture and the most important production of olive Abruzzo, thanks to the ancient cultivation of ' olive tree which here finds ideal conditions of climate and soil.