On 8 September there is a particular religious celebration, the procession from the Sanctuary to the Parish Church. During this process, the Moriconesi make up “nursery rhymes”, decorations are made with the leaves of the local vegetation, which are then thrown over the statue of the Madonna.
This is an interactive multimedia museum that tells the story of the area through the production of oil from the botanical themes perspective, historical, artistic and ethnographic. A virtual application allows you to grow olive trees and magically produce a virtual olive oiil. The museum is inside picturesque old converted Read more…
The church of Jesus and Mary was consecrated in 1639 and is just a building shaped like a hut and its only decoration is the marble frame of the gateway. The interior consists of a single nave with the ceiling in the shape of a covered barrel, with three side Read more…
The church is located in the centre of the town and was realised by Sister Columba. Inside you will find some valuable paintings, an altarpieceof the Assumption and Our Lady of the Rosary.
In the highest part of Mount Morrecone, in the tenth century they began to build fortifications that by around 1200 had already taken the form of a castle then bought by the Savelli family. The Savelli ruled all this greater area until 1600 when, because of a financial crisis, sold Read more…
Moricone is located on the hills at the foot of Mount Gennaro in Lucretili Mountains Park. Its story begins with the Sabines and the Romans: this was the area of the famous Gens Claudia. The true nucleus of habitation was formed in the Middle Ages, around a thousand A.D., when Read more…
