Capestrano is a little town with 965 inhabitants (2001), in Abruzzo, a mountainous region in Central Italy, known to the Romans as Aufina, a city of the Vestini.

Main sights

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• The Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter ad Oratorium ,situated on the bank of Tirino river. The church was built in 752 by the Lombard king Desiderius. It is a church with a nave, two side aisles and a choir. Onto the romanic portal there are two marble relief with the figures of David and St. Vincent Deacon. The façade hass a marble inscription in enigmatic Latin: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS.
• Castle Piccolomini

In the necropolis the statue of the "Warrior of Capestrano" (4th century BCE) was found during the work in a field by a farmer. The 2,09 m (6.9 feet) tall statue depicts an early Italic warrior in full gear.

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