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Capistrano (465 m above sea level. And about 950 inhabitants), the beautiful city of art on the edge of the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso-Monti della Laga, is an ancient fortified medieval town dominated by castle Piccolomini d'Aragona (or Medici because the country was also the stronghold of the Medici family of Florence), the current town hall.
The village, where he was born in 1386 St John Giantedeschi, shows an interesting juxtaposition of medieval and renaissance architecture, with many buildings of fine workmanship. A story much more ancient and centuries of history suggests the discovery, near the close source Tirino, the statue of the warrior Italic (the famous and majestic Warrior of Capistrano ") now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Chieti, the emblem of a potent class of warrior-shepherds in Abruzzo established themselves during the Iron Age, during which it consolidated routes of transhumance between the pastures of the Apennines and the Apulian Plateau. In the scenic town stand out, besides the castle, the churches of S. Maria della Pace and S. Catherine Cataldi and palaces, Capponi, Carli and braids. In the vicinity to see: the convent of S. John of Capistrano (XV cent.) Archaeological area where it was found a statue of the famous warrior Italic; the beautiful Romanesque church of S. Pietro ad Oratorium (1100) and Lake Chief of Water, a source of the river Tirino natural paradise where swimming coots, moorhens, mallards, grebes, teals and dun. Eastern limits of the municipality, almost on the border with the province of Pescara, one finds the medieval tower of Forca di Penne (XV century). Which overlooks the valley of Pescara. San Pietro ad Oratorium Deep in the country traveled by river Tirino, stands the lonely church of St. Pietro ad Oratorium. Founded according to tradition, between the eighth and eleventh century by the Lombard king Desiderius, was rebuilt in 1100, as bears the inscription on the lintel of the main portal, richly carved with plant motifs. Certainly linked to the civilization and the pastoral tradition of transhumance, which for centuries has been consumed along the cattle track near L'Aquila-Foggia, the church is known not only for decorative interior - with large ciborium on the altar of the thirteenth century supported by four columns, with architraves which are raised sixteen columns surmounted by a truncated pyramid and a canopy with dome and apse precious frescoes, paintings of the most important events of the twelfth century - including the mysterious inscription on a place to ashlar ' outside left of the portal.
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