Campli, Province of Teramo, Abruzzo

Situated on a hill between the two valleys of rivers Fiumicino and Siccagno, Campli is a centre of great artistic and religious interest, with a fine historical centre with many fine XV-century houses, among which the unique Casa del Medico, one of the most significant monuments of the town.

Info

Altitude: 393 m a.s.l
Distance from Teramo: 12 km
Population: ca. 7000 inhabitants in 2019
Postal code: 64012
Dialing Area Code: +39 0861
How to reach it: by motorway, Km 13 from A24; by bus, from Teramo; by road, from Teramo, Giulianova.

Administrative Division

Campli includes a great many frazioni: Battaglia, Boceto, Campiglio, Campovalano, Cesenà, Cognoli, Colli, Collicelli, Fichieri, Floriano, Fonte a Collina, Friscoli, Gagliano, Garrufo, Guazzano, I Cappuccini, La Traversa, Masseri, Molviano, Morge, Nocella, Paduli, Pagannoni superiore e inferiore, Pastinella, Paterno, Piancarani, Plicati, Prognoli, Roiano, Sant'Onofrio, Terrabianca, Trinità, Villa Camera.

History

Nearby Campovalano, with a necropolis of the late Bronze Age, testify the antiquity of the human presence in the area. The name Campli first appears in documents of the IX century A.D., and in a Catalogue of the XII century is mentioned as the property of Roberto, Count of Aprutio. In 1538 the town was given by emperor Charles V to his daughter Margaret of Austria as a present for her wedding to Ottavio Farnese, and belonged to the Farnese up to the early XVIII century.

What to see

The Palazzo del Parlamento, a fine medieval building which is nowadays the official seat of the municipality.
The church of San Francesco (XIV sec), with another beautiful painting by Cola dell'Amatrice.
The church of Santa Maria in Platea, XIV century, with a Romanesque belltower, three aisles and a typical wooden roof, a XVII-century canvas by local artist G.B. Boncori, a Renaissance altar with a statue by Silvestro dell'Aquila (1495) between two XVI-century paintings by Cola dell'Amatrice and, in the sacresty, a fine painting on wood with a rare picture of Mary nursing the Child Jesus.
The Museo Archeologico Nazionale, in the former Convento di San Francesco, with remains from Campovalano (VII - V century B.C.), a celebrated Etruscan necropolis.
The church of San Pietro, near Campovalano, founded in the VIII but rebuilt in the XIII century, which contains a precious Roman sarcophagus.