Patron saint festival In 92 days
Feast of Saint Felix of Nola
📅 Every year, on 14 January
On 14 January Chianche celebrates its patron Saint Felix of Nola, to whom the town's church is dedicated; the Castello ducale also stands here.
In the Middle Ages it was called Chianca, from the Latin planca: the plancae were the polygonal stones the Romans paved their roads with, and the name came from them. The comune is made of three separate cores — Chianche, Chianchetelle, which was a comune of its own until the nineteenth century, and San Pietro, now called Irpino — scattered over a hillside in the valley of the river Sabato. Among the oak and chestnut woods lie the vineyards of Greco di Tufo.
The castle above the village is probably Norman, but it appears in a document only in 1301; from then on the fief changed hands a dozen times, from the de Planca to the Perelli, until feudalism ended in 1806. In the square stands a fountain of local limestone, built in 1891 together with the first municipal aqueduct: on top it carries the bust of Gennaro Sambiase Sanseverino, duke of San Donato, who was mayor of Naples and a friend of Garibaldi. Above the Stretto di Barba watches a neo-Gothic tower.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.