The village of Civitacampomarano (province of Campobasso) may not have many residents, but it does have a significant cultural, historical and natural heritage. The village rises from a rock of tuff, 520m above sea level, in the heart of Vallone Grande, where the Vallone Grande stream flows into the Biferno River, surrounded by fields of wheat and olive groves that are centuries old. The territory extends over 4,000 hectares of variable altitude (ranging from Monte Andrea at 930m to Vallone Grande at 300m) comprising forests, springs, lakes and streams.
The Angevin Castle, whose structure dates to the 13th century, is the main monument in the city. Perched on a sandstone rock in the centre of the village, it has a quadrangular base with three cylindrical corner towers, of which two are perfectly conserved while one, partially destroyed, has been rebuilt. The structure was once surrounded by a moat that, from the end of the 1400s, separated it from the eastern perimeter wall.
Next to the castle is the Church of St. Mary Major which collapsed in 1903. The baptismal font and doorway to the baptistery, of notable artistic value, were recovered and reused in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The Church of St. George the Martyr rises on a sandstone rock over 100m high and dominates the precipce of “la Cavatella”; it probably dates to the late Romanesque period and has a rectangular facade that terminates in a triangle in the upper portion which features a bas-relief of St. George on horseback.
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