Church and palace of the Annunziata
The complex is formed by the union of the Palace of the Annunziata, founded in 1320 by the Brotherhood of the Penitence, with the adjacent Church of the "Annunziata" destroyed by an earthquake in 4/ 12/ 1456, rebuilt in the first '500's , again dejected by another earthquake in 3/ 11/ 1706 and reconstructed on Pietro Da Milano's plan (1710) by Norberto di Cicco from Pescocostanzo.
XX September Square
In the central XX September Square rises the monument to Ovidio, a bronzy statue made in 1925 by Ettore Ferrari. Publio Ovidio Nasone, born in Sulmona in 43 b.C. and died in exile in Tomes on the Black Sea in 17 AD, was one of the greatest Latin poets of the Augustus age. From one of his verses 'Sulmo mihi patria est' derives the letters written on the civic coat: S.M.P.E.
The 'fontana del vecchio'
Situated at the end of the medieval aqueduct the Fontana del Vecchio was built in 1474 in elegant rinascimental forms for initiative of Polidoro Tiberto from Cesena.
Church of S.Francesco della Scarpa
S.Francesco della Scarpa takes the name from the monks who officiated it, whoes shoes where different from the 'zoccolanti'. We believe it was founded by Charles II d'Angio' in 1290. It was seriously ruined by earthquakes in 1456 and 1706 and then remade. Of the first construction, wich had three aisles, it preserves the ogival portal of Romanesque type while a part of the side and of an apse (see image) have remained isolated from the rest.
medieval Aqueduct and Garibaldi square
In foreground the aqueduct built in 1256, like written in longobardic characters between two last arcades: it is constituted of a magnificent parade of 21 ogival arcades (less 2 to all order) liberated in the 1962 from the constructions that imprisoned it. Through the arcs you can see the Garibaldi plaza aso known as the Market plaza and the Morrone mountain in the background.
Porta Napoli
We believe it was erected in the first half of the '300's and it is the most monumental door of the 12 that the city counted. Built in stone it is particular in it's external front where it presents the ogival arc surmounted by a wide window also ogival.