Sant'Elia a Pianisi

The Locality: The little town rises in a landscape of woods, farmlands, and hills covered with olive trees. A very lively trade center in the past, when there were a pasta and biscuit factory, a flour mill, a trousers manufacture, most of them unfortunately now closed. The first historical records go back to the 14th century, when it was a fiefdom of Fiorentia de Trinci; later on it passed to the Di Capua and finally to the Di Palma family. The place is today a favorite religious destinations since in the Capucine Convent there is the cell where San Pio da Pietrelcina, the beloved Padre Pio, spent four years of his life.