Since 2008 there has been an astronomical observatory above the town, at 1,042 metres, named after Giovanni Boccardi, the astronomer born here: it has a robotised telescope with a sixty-centimetre mirror.
Until 1885 the comune of 1,638 residents was called Castelluccio Acquaborrana. In the church of San Leonardo the medieval façade has stayed set into the baroque one, to the left of the Gothic bell tower, and of the old front the frieze and the rose window remain. Palazzo Cantelmo was the thirteenth-century castle, later turned into a residence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. To the west spreads a great beech wood, on the slopes of Monte Mauro.
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📅 Every year, on 6 November
Castelmauro celebrates Saint Leonard the Confessor on 6 November; the town, originally called Castelluccio Acquaborrana, had a 13th-century castle owned by the Canzano family, destroyed by the great earthquake that struck central-southern Italy in 1456.
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Outside Castelmauro, but an easy day trip away.
