Introduce water - Introdacqua

Introduce water is a center ofAbruzzo.

To know

The town is part of the most beautiful villages in Italy.

Geographical notes

Introdacqua is a town located in the Peligna Valley on a hill located on the confluence of two valleys that enclose it, that of Contra and that of Sant'Antonio.

Background

In the Middle Ages it was referred to as "Interaquas". The area shows evidence of Italic, Roman and Lombard settlements. The current inhabited center was built around the year 1000 with the fortification of the "villas". It was held as a fief by various noble families including the Counts of Sangro, Capua, D'Aquino, the Marquises d'Avalos and finally Trasmondi, Marquesses of Introdacqua.

How to orient yourself

Its municipal territory also includes the towns of Cantone, Cauze, Mastroiacovo, Pannate and Santa Maria Frascati.

How to get

By plane

• Pescara airport (Abruzzo International Airport), Via Tiburtina Km 229.100, ☎ 39 085 4324201. 

By car

• Highway A 25 Rome - Pescara, Sulmona motorway exit.

On the train

• Railway station a Sulmona on the Rome - Pescara line

By bus

• It has bus connections with Sulmona.

How to get around

What see

• Medieval tower and castle. The medieval tower of the twelfth century overlooks the town; it is a square dungeon surrounded by polygonal walls. The castle is the ancient village of Introdacqua and includes the houses that surround the tower up to the Marchesale palace. 
• Bell tower. The seventeenth-century Romanesque bell tower is built in local stone. 
• Mother Church Maria S.S. Annunziata. Adjacent to the bell tower is the mother church of the S.S. Annunziata, in which the remains of the patron saint of Introdacqua, San Feliciano Martire, are preserved; the church has an internal basilica structure with three naves and houses medieval and renaissance frescoes, in particular the one dedicated to St. Christopher. 
• Trasmondi Palace, Piazza Cavour. The palace built around the 13th century is called Trasmondi, the last feudal lords of the town. It was the refuge of Giovanni Quatrario, a humanist friend of Petrarch who fled from Sulmona, and in 1853 he hosted Panfilo Serafini, writer and patriot from Sulmona, persecuted by the Bourbons for his liberal ideas. The building is in the center of the town 
• Gates of the Earth. Behind the Marchesale palace there are two gates, called "Porte della Terra", which provided for the defense of the old village. The quadripartite coat of arms of the Trasmondi family appears on the key of the arch of the door facing north. 
• Church of Our Lady of Sorrows. Located in front of the Mother Church, inside it preserves the statues of Dead Christ and the Addolorata that are carried in procession on Good Friday. 
• Church of S.S. Trinity. Completed in 1706, it preserves the statue of the "Madonna che vèle", the Madonna running towards her risen son during the representation set up on Easter day and which draws visitors and tourists to the village. 
• Church of Sant'Antonio. It was built in the 11th century in honor of the holy hermit. The church has recently restored frescoes from the 15th and 16th centuries. 
• Church of San Giovanni. The rural church of San Giovanni Battista was built around the 11th century and still has original medieval frescoes. 
• Church of the Madonna delle Grazie. It is a rural church built around the fifteenth century; retains a nineteenth-century canvas. 
• Fontavecchia. The Old Fountain, also called "Fontavecchia", is a rectangular basin on which a curtain parapet is placed; it has the stone coat of arms of the town, with the date of construction engraved (1706). This large fountain was for a long time the only source of supply for the inhabitants of Introdacqua, otherwise forced to go to one of the nearest springs called "Fonte La Strega". 

Events and parties

• Fires of Sant'Antonio. January 17. 
• Good Friday procession. 
• Easter procession (The Madonna che Véle). Easter Sunday. 
• Procession of the Holy Souls. first Tuesday after Easter. 
• Feast of the Sun. June 24. Summer solstice on Monte Plaia to see the sunrise from the Maiella. 
• Corpus Christi procession. May or June. 
• Procession of San Rocco. August 16. 
• Festivals and events. In the months of July and August July-August. 
• Jazz music festival (Muntagninjazz). in August. 
• Farro Festival. mid-August. 
• Patronal feast. penultimate Sunday of August. in honor of San Feliciano Martire and Sant'Antonio di Padova. 
• Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. second Sunday of September. 
• Thanksgiving Day. second Sunday of November. 
• Concert and procession of Santa Cecilia. third Sunday of November. 

What to do

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

Where stay

Safety

• Carabinieri, Piazza A. Susi 2, ☎ 39 0864 47115. 

Pharmacy

• Pecorini, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 22, ☎ 39 0864 47680. 

How to keep in touch

Post office

• 42.00725513.8980621 Italian post, Piazza Cavour 9, ☎ 39 0864 47555, fax: 39 0864 47555. 

Around

• Sulmona - City of Peligni, Municipium Roman, homeland of the Latin poet Ovid (Sulmo mihi patria est), capital ofAbruzzo in the thirteenth century, Sulmona is the reference city of Peligna-Alto Sangro Valley; it boasts an important monumental center and also links its name to the production of sugared almonds, already flourishing and renowned in the past.

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