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PARK TOWNS Abbateggio Ateleta Bolognano Campo di Giove Cansano Caramanico Terme Civitella M. R. Corfinio Fara San Martino Gamberale Guardiagrele Lama dei Peligni Lettopalena Manoppello Montenerodomo Pacentro Palena Palombaro Pennapiedimonte Pescocostanzo Pizzoferrato Popoli Pratola Peligna Pretoro Rapino Rivisondoli Roccacasale Rocca Pia Roccaraso Salle Sant' Eufemia San Valentino   Serramonacesca Sulmona Taranta Peligna Tocco da Casauria NEARBY TOWNS Alanno Cepagatti Cugnoli Nocciano Pietranico Roccamontepiano Rosciano Scafa Turrivalignani

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This town in the province of Chieti, with 1050 inhabitants, is located on the eastern slopes of the the Maiella mountains at an altitude of 2000 feet.  It has been continuously settled since prehistoric times; recent archaeolgical work has brought to light prehistoric graves, stone-age tools, and the ruins of a Roman villa.  The town includes the village of La Fonte, where the ruins of a Roman bath, including a mosaic floor, were recently discovered.  The first written records of the present town date back to the 12th century.  The name of the town derives from the fact that it was the civita or feudal holding of a man named Raimondo Caldora. The old center of the town retains its medieval characteristics and is a web of narrow winding streets lined by simple houses.  The town belonged to a series of noble families over the centuries, the last of which, the Baglioni, built a small castle that remains today--the castello Baglioni.  Located in Piazza Roma, the castle commands a view of the Santo Spirito Valley below.  Near the castle is the 18th century church of S. Salvatore, over the door of which is a fresco of the town's patron saint, Sant'Erasmo. ** A great Italian website by Pietrino Di Sebastiano titled "Com'eravamo in fotografia dai primi del 900 agli anni 50) with many many photos of people and places in Civitella Messer Raimondo from the period 1900 - 1950 is at this address:  http://www.civitellamesserraimondo.info/civitella.shtml

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