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centers in this region. Its
existence is known from
the year 981, when in a
judicial dispute about the
castles at the service of
the abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno, also enters
the castellum quod Vantra
nominatur, the same as in
another part of the document is called castle de
Vantra quod dicitur Fornellu.
The titling to the Archangel Saint Michael of the
mother church suggests
that the hill on which it
stands has seen the passage and the ruling of the
Longobards. The highest
part of the village is occupied by religious au-
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metry are softened by elements late baroque in the
brackets of the balconies.
To the family Laurelli must
be the latest changes to
the palace, such as the
cant close to the mother
The main door of access church.
to the historical center was
equipped with a drawbri- The church of San Michedge that rose on the moat. le Arcangelo, on which
One enters the village stands the bell tower of
even through Porta Ca- 1738, was consecrated in
stello and Porta Nova, in- 1746. The recent tampeputs so small as to prevent ring with the high cover
access to motor vehicles. to time nor has betrayed
The baronial palace, built the original shapes; they
on the castle walls at the remain to see the statue
door of Umberto I square, of San Michele and three
has two circular norman paintings of the eighteincorporated towers with enth century recently rethe main façade, whose stored. The church of St.
characters of strict sym- Peter the Martyr will keep
thorities and by the civil
Authority, represented by
baronial palace that repeats in large part the system
of the ancient Lombard
castle.
the memory of the beautiful renaissance portal and
the marble inlays of antependium that decorates
the baroque altar. In the
square on which overlooks the church, is located
the fountain dedicated
to summer, a copy of the
sculpture that the French
Le Mathurin Moreau presented to the Universal
Exhibition in Paris in 1855.
Aluminum Frames and flooring to queue of Pavone does not do justice to
the village, which can do
much more to promote its
type “winding total” ,the
compactness, namely, that
of its urban core within the
ancient walls.
LOCAL PRODUCT
City of the oil, stove and
surrounded by olive trees and produces a fruity
oil and light. A mill at the
entrance of the village is a
cooperative marketing testify to the importance of
this product for the local
economy. In the territory
you will also find truffles,
as in other areas of the
Molise. Finally, there are
cultivated legumes endangered along the river
di Vandra.
LOCAL DISHES
It begins - strictly in dialect - with taccunell and
fasciuel (a paste without
eggs, cut into squares,
seasoned with sautéed in
olive oil, garlic and beans),
then sciurc Coccia (zucchini flowers in batterfried)
and then r’ suffritt (entrails
or offal fried lamb with
potatoes and peppers)
or casc’ and ova (liver kid
with eggs and cheese). It
closes with the sweet, which is different for every season: a carnival the cioffe
(flakes of pastry fried), at
Easter the pastiera (tart
rice cooked in milk) and
r’ sciaiun (calzones stuffed with various types of
cheeses and vegetables),
at Christmas the cerchiata
(balls of sweet pastry with
honey) and “r sciusc” (bread dough and potatoes,
fried and sprinkled with
sugar).
THE NAME
The assumption most accredited and is that the
castle of the X century
mentioned with the name
of Bantra in Chronicon
Vulturnense and di Vandra in subsequent documents, has changed its
name to cooking stove
in the XI century and Stoves around in the middle
of the XVIII. THE etymology is to connect to the
presence in the territory
of furnaces for bricks and
tiles or ovens for the processing of metals.
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