In 1934 a farmer working a field pulled out the Warrior of Capestrano: a statue two metres nine high showing a king of the Vestini in full armour, carved in the sixth century before Christ. It came from the necropolis of Aufinum, the town that stood down below; today it is in Chieti and it is the emblem of Abruzzo.
In 1579 Costanza Piccolomini, in debt for the building of a church in Rome, sold the whole marquisate of Capestrano to Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: a hundred and six thousand scudi. Five years later Philip II of Spain made it a principality, and for a century and a half this piece of Abruzzo belonged to the Medici, so much so that Tuscan families came to live here.
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📅 Every year, on 23 October
On 23 October Capestrano celebrates its patron and fellow townsman Saint John of Capistrano; the town preserves the Castello Piccolomini and the site where the Warrior of Capestrano was found.
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