On 26 January 1564, the very day Pius IV confirmed the decrees of the Council of Trent, bishop Belisario Balduino opened his seminary here: Larino claims to have had the first episcopal seminary in Christendom.
The Romanesque-Gothic cathedral of San Pardo has a rose window with thirteen rays, unique of its kind. Of the Roman town there remain the amphitheatre, the baths, the forum and mosaics; the name went from Frenter to Ladinod, then Larinum, Larina, Alarino, and finally Larino in the nineteenth century. The ducal palace, founded in the eleventh century, now holds the town museum and the historical archive. The 7,142 residents press oil from the Gentile di Larino olive.
Duomo di Larino · anfiteatro romano di Larino · Palazzo Ducale and 1 more
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Next up: The feast of Saint Pardus and its carts, Tuesday 25 May
Nearest airport: Pescara, 93 km away
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📅 Every year, from 25 to 27 May
From 25 to 27 May some one hundred and thirty carts drawn by oxen, cows and sheep, covered in hand-made paper flowers, re-enact for Larino the procession of 842 with the body of Saint Pardus.
Duomo di Larino A slab on the portal dates the consecration to 30 July 1319. 
anfiteatro romano di Larino A five-metre pit in the arena held the counterweights of the animal-cage hoist. 
Palazzo Ducale A town hall that was once a Norman castle, with Roman busts in the hallway. 
Larinum A Roman town at a road junction above the Biferno, free to walk into. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Larino, but an easy day trip away.
