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Region Molise Province Campobasso SANT'ELIA A PIANISI

Sant'Elia a Pianisi, Province Campobasso, Molise, Italy

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.

Info

Altitude: 671 m a.s.l -- Territory: hilly -- Population: ca. 2300 inhabitants -- Zip/postal code: 86048 -- Phone Area Code: 0874
Patron Saint:S. Elia Profeta on 20 July -- Frazioni & Località:

What to see

Church of Sant'Elia, 13th century, containing two beautiful marble statues representing Joseph and Mary, a 16th-century painting "Allegoria dei Sette Sacramenti" moved here from Ripabottoni in 1720, as well as a fine canvas of local painter Fernando Di Stefano representing patron Sant'Elia the Prophet on his fire wagon.
The "Cerreto" Wood