On the rock above the town stands what is left of a twelfth-century Norman tower: square in plan, twelve metres high, with its door raised off the ground, because you climbed up by a wooden ladder that could be pulled in if attacked.
Below that tower are Samnite remains in polygonal masonry. The town's name comes from Loretinum, which meant a small plantation of laurel. At Palazzo Giordano duke Giuseppe had the four corner towers pulled down to modernise the house, in the eighteenth century. In the parish church hangs the Assumption that Ciriaco Brunetti signed in 1791; he and his brother Stanislao were from here. There are 1,560 residents.
Palazzo Giordano · torre di Oratino
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Next up: Saint Boniface, patron of a town with Ciriaco Brunetti's rediscovered fresco, Friday 14 May
Nearest airport: Napoli Capodichino, 81 km away
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📅 Every year, on 14 May
Oratino celebrates Saint Boniface on 14 May; the town preserves the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta, with a fresco of the Assumption signed and dated 1791 by the painter Ciriaco Brunetti, rediscovered and restored in the vault of the central nave.
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