Casalincontrada

In the second half of the thirteenth century the village was called Casalis Comitis, the count's farmstead, probably in honour of Gualtiero di Pagliara, count of Manoppello; today it is called Casalincontrada. In 1270 it passed to the French Du Plessis, and after 1293 to the Colonna and then to the Sully, following the fortunes of Manoppello until about 1330. Later it was a fief of the Caracciolo, and it was from them that it was bought, for four thousand ducats, by Giovan Battista del Giudice, a great lord of Amalfi.

Of the old fortified village there remain the fourteenth-century entrance arch in worked brick, once called Porta da Capo, and the gate of Cerretone. The church of Santa Maria della Pietà, now deconsecrated, has on its side door a stone architrave carved in the twelfth century by masters of the abbey of San Liberatore a Maiella: it is older than the church that holds it. Behind the houses there is a neviera, a large brick well in which snow was stored and pressed down through the winter to be used in summer; it is of the first half of the eighteenth century. Cesare de Lollis was born here, and the village raised a statue to him in 1963, a hundred years after his birth. The parish church of Santo Stefano has been closed and unsafe since the earthquake of 2009.