12 February 2002
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12 February 2002 - Il Messaggero
" Prati della Macchia " is a place of San Leonardo pass as " Collalto ", " Valle Cupa ", " Valle Messere " unite from a spontaneous architecture that goes under the name of tholos, huts in monocellular stone to dry up, shelter nearly without time for shepherds and farmers, typical in the western slope of the Maiella. The principal builders of this huts came from Pacentro.
12 February 2002 - Il Messaggero
The ceremony for the commemoration of the slaughter of the 9 shot inhabitants of Chieti from the germans during the liberation war, it is started at 11 o'clock, in perfect schedule. The martyrdoms of Colle Pineto, shot as " traitorous" because they refused to fight with the germen, are:Nicola Cavorso, Pietro Cappelletti, Aldo e Alfredo Grifone, Stelio Falasca, Vittorio Mannella, Beniamino Di Matteo, Raffaele Di Natale e Aldo Sebastiani Only in three were saved, the young Guido Grifone, Floriano Finori and Giovanni Potenza, thank to the intervention of the bishop of Chieti Giuseppe Venturi.