They call it the village of the deer, because the deer walk in the streets and in the meadows inside the village. The water came later: in 1951 the Barrea dam was finished and the basin filled, covering a piece of the territory and turning the Sangro into a lake, which today also serves as a reserve for the firefighting aircraft.
In the wall of the church of San Sebastiano a Roman stone was set: it says that a centurion of the twenty-second legion made a gift to Hercules, spending a thousand sesterces. In December 1943, instead, the Germans ordered the village to be evacuated: many of its people ended up at Passignano sul Trasimeno, and in 2014 the two comuni twinned in memory of it.
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📅 Every year, on the third Sunday of July and on the first Sunday after Ferragosto (15 August)
On the third Sunday of July and on the first Sunday after Ferragosto (15 August) Villetta Barrea, a municipality of 652 inhabitants in the province of L'Aquila, celebrates its patron saints San Vincenzo Martire and Santa Barbara Vergine e Martire.
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Outside Villetta Barrea, but an easy day trip away.
