A village of 537 people has an astronomical observatory and a planetarium that projects twenty thousand stars: it stands in the Montagna district, where the sky is still properly dark. The rest of the year the digging here is for truffles — San Pietro Avellana is one of Italy's official truffle towns, and in November the prized white truffle market fills the streets.
The name comes from the Benedictine abbey of San Pietro, now a ruin: it once held the Chronicon Vulturnense, the register of the churches of the Sangro valley. Avellana probably comes from the hazel trees, the avellane, which duly appear on the coat of arms beside St Peter's keys.
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📅 Every year, on 29 June
San Pietro Avellana celebrates Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June; the village grew up around a fortified Benedictine monastery whose church still holds, in a crypt, the body of Saint Amicus, and it is today one of Italy's National Truffle Towns.
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Outside San Pietro Avellana, but an easy day trip away.
