Tradition tells of pilgrims who set out from Venafro towards Puglia and were set upon by brigands right here: the men turned into stones, the women into doves. The place is still called chajedonne, the weeping of the women.
The town's name, more prosaically, comes from Binifri, that is from the Latin Vinifer, land that makes wine: so it is written in a document of 1049. On top of the spur, at the entrance to the Terra Vecchia, stand the Lombard castle of the mid-tenth century and the church of Santa Maria delle Rose; of the walls four gates remain. In 2002 Bonefro was one of the epicentres of the Molise earthquake. There are 1,528 residents.
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📅 Every year, on 9 May
Bonefro celebrates Bishop Saint Nicholas on 9 May, depicted on the municipal coat of arms; the town preserves the 10th-century Lombard castle and the Romanesque church of Santa Maria delle Rose, both in the district called «Terra Vecchia».
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Outside Bonefro, but an easy day trip away.
