On the night of 26 September 1712 some sixty Turks besieged the tower of Montebello, where the country people had taken refuge: they held out until reinforcements arrived from Vasto, led by count Filippo Ricci. It was the last Turkish raid on this coast.
The town comes from a village called Bisaccia: abandoned during the invasions, its people took shelter in the sandstone caves and then climbed the hill covered with thick scrub, the black mountain. In those same caves, for more than thirty years, the living nativity has been staged. The 6,649 residents grow wheat, vines and olives, and make ventricina; below, at the mouth of the Trigno, lies the marina.
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📅 Every year, on 21 September
On 21 September Montenero di Bisaccia celebrates Saint Matthew the Evangelist, to whom the parish church is dedicated; the town is also known for the ventricina, its traditional cured pork sausage.
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Outside Montenero di Bisaccia, but an easy day trip away.
