Prosciutto di Parma pork leg and sea salt, aged at least twelve months
Only Italian pork and sea salt, aged for at least twelve months: Prosciutto di Parma has held Protected Designation of Origin status since 1996.
Read more →Above Chiastre di Ravarano stand the Salti del Diavolo: rock towers in a row that cut across the valley. They are conglomerates from the floor of a vanished ocean; at the base they hold large pebbles, smaller ones higher up, and at the top a whitish paste that until the twentieth century was fetched from up there to make cornices and doorframes for the houses of the district.
In 1350 the inhabitants signed, because Giovanni Visconti wanted it, a declaration acknowledging that their territory had once belonged to the Comune of Parma: that signature was enough to take away the autonomy they had held since 1249. Then, in 1426, Pier Maria de' Rossi laid siege to the fortress of Marzolara and took it after twenty-four days of bombardment.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Calestano, but an easy day trip away.
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.