Caramanico

16th Centaury town with beautiful views down the valley	The mountains near Caramanic	In winter you can ski 5 mins from Caramanico
There are also wellness in which you can have beauty treatments.	The thermal springs where you can have various medical cures.	There are beautiful walks in the three national parks nearby.

Caramanico

16th Centaury, Caramanico Terme is a historic and very characteristic town of 2069 people in the province of Pescara.It is perched on a hill with fabulous views down the valley. The mountains of Maiella and Morrone are nearby. Caramanico is situated between the valley of the river Orta and its tributary Orfento and there are many beautiful walks with BBQ areas. It is only 40 mins from Pescara and the coast and it near to the motorway to Rome. Caramanico itself has many beautiful churches and characteristic properties and there is
a beautiful public open-air swimming pool with wonderful views.
You can reach Caramanico by A25 Motorway, take Alanno-Scafa Exit and follow /SS 487 /towards Caramanico Terme.The village is located in a typical area of Appennini:It belongs to the National Park of Majella and it is fully part of the nature reserve of Orfento Valley

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History

The town takes its name from either cara, meaning rock, or from arimannia, a lombard establishment in the late Middle Ages. Then the name Terme was added in 1960 because of the presence of a spa nearby (the only one in Abruzzo), with famous healthy waters. In its territory there is also a Natural Reserve, Valle dell'Orfento. In nearby Valle Giumentina paleolithic remains have been found (among the most important in Italy). The present settlement is recorded since lombard times. Then it underwent a remarkable development in the XIV-XV centuries, under the D'Aquino family, and in that period many important monuments were built. In 1706 a terrible earthquake nearby destroyed the town.

Sights & Excursions

* Church of S. Maria Maggiore (XV century), with a fine portal and a highrelief by Johann from Lubeck, originally almost a fortress, with high walls and a tower.
* Church of St. Tommaso, founded in the 12th century in honor of Thomas of Canterbury. with a wonderful portal with stone sculptures and 13th century frescoes; on Jubilee years the Holy Door of the church is opened by the archbishop of Chieti.
* The historical centre, with fine medieval houses
* The Eremo di San Giovanni, where Sant'Onofrio lived for seven years, in the 13th century AD.
* Natural Reserve Valle dell'Orfento, opened in 1971 before the institution of the Maiella National Park, of which it is today part. It is one of the wildest and most spectacular corners of the Apennine: a deep canyon created by the wild Orfento river, most times of the year covered with a thick vegetation, that rises from 500 mt to a breathtaking 2700 meters. The beauty of the landscape and the presence of rare species (wolves and eagles, gentian and peonies) make it a true naturalistic jewel. A well equipped network of paths of varied difficulty and length allows to cross the whole valley them and its many biotopes (river, forests, prairies, crests). All necessary hiking information can be obtained at the Visitors' Center "Paolo Barrasso" in Caramanico Terme, which also releases the authorization necessary to visit the Reserve.
* Caramanico spas
The extraordinary therapeutic virtues of sulphureous waters of Caramanico have been known for centuries. The first testimony of their use was in 1576, when Father Serafino Razzi, a Dominican preacher visiting the area, describes in his travel diary the crowd of scabies sick going to the "aqua putreda" of the spring called "Zolfanaia". The waters gushing out from the springs called "La Salute" and "Gisella" have a high content of sulphured hydrogen at a temperature of 10,5 degrees Centigrade and are channeled into the spa plants for hydropinic therapy and other treatments. Also the low-mineral water of the spring "Pisciarello" has healthy diuretic effects, and recently a center for beauty care was established. The spa season goes from April to November.