In the 1950s, for an inquiry into living conditions in the south, they filmed Altilia: inside the Roman town of Saepinum, still standing, shepherds lived in houses made out of the theatre walls, and the flocks still went down the main street.
Saepinum was a station on the Pescasseroli-Candela drove road, ringed by twenty-five round towers; on the Bojano gate are two carved German prisoners and the inscription of Tiberius and Drusus. The name Altilia comes from the Arabic al tell, town in ruins, as they found it once it was abandoned. Today's town, higher up, was born then: the 1,985 residents live at 698 metres, on the Matese.
Saepinum Archaeological Area · Saepinum · Museo della città e del territorio di Sepino
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📅 Every year, on 23 and 24 July; 8, 9 and 10 January for the arrival of the relics
Sepino celebrates its patron on 23 and 24 July, together with Bolsena, its twin town. But the feast felt most deeply falls in January, and recalls the arrival of the relics in 1099.
Saepinum Archaeological Area Encircled by walls built by Tiberius, ancient Saepinum is an exceptionally preserved Roman city in the Molise 
Saepinum The Roman order forbidding locals to harass the shepherds crossing the town. 
Museo della città e del territorio di Sepino Four rooms of Samnite finds, inside farmhouses raised on a Roman theatre Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Sepino, but an easy day trip away.
