Santo Stefano di Sessanio

The Medici tower came down in the earthquake of 6 April 2009. It was rebuilt using the original blocks and reopened on 8 October 2021, twelve years later, for a village of a hundred and two people.

Under the Medici this was a centre of the carfagna wool trade across Europe. Since the 2000s the abandoned houses have been bought and restored as a scattered hotel, without adding anything foreign to the original material. The lentils grown above 1,200 metres are a Slow Food presidium.

Rome Fiumicino (FCO), about a hundred and eighty kilometres, two and a quarter hours by the A24. Not realistically reachable by train: you drive the last thirty kilometres of mountain road.