The name comes from the hornbeam woods and from the river Nora, which rises here: the snow of the Voltigno plateau melts, disappears into the sinkholes and comes out again as a spring. On the slopes there is an olive cultivar of its own, the carpinetana, which climbs to seven hundred metres: at that height the olive fly does not reach it.
The abbey of San Bartolomeo was wanted by Bernardo, count of Penne; his descendants gave the castle to the abbot, then the castle ended up with the bishop of Penne — the source admits it does not know how or when — and in 1090 bishop Pampone gave it back to abbot Sansone. In the seventeenth century the fief belonged to Federico Borromeo, who rebuilt the parish church.
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