Il Casino degli ulivi

A few steps from Benevento, in an emotional triangle that goes from the magical places of the capital of Sunni, the mysticism of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the land of the rites of "battenti" and Balloons in the heart of the royal tracks Welcome at our Country house placed in one of the most beautiful and least known of Italy, the Sannio. A few steps from Benevento, in an emotional triangle that goes from the magical places of the capital of Sunni, the mysticism of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the land of the rites of "battenti" and Balloons in the heart of the royal tracks, was born "Il Casino degli ulivi" a charming residence converted from a fantastic building that seems to anticipate some architectural elements that will gather some insights into the modernist Barcelona of Gaudi. Too short a stay at "Il Casino degli ulivi" is unlikely to be only a weekend out of town. Structure, both young and old, that wants to grow and meet the tastes of its Guests. he Rooms, discreet and essential, overcome the functionalism of the form pursuing tied up perspectives to the simple and ancient tradition of the country, the hull, the "capanno", the Country hunting house . Each of the guests can discover the match among image and form given by the tone of color,the clean perfume, the sight mozzafiato or from the prominent "loggia". Let's discover together her To me the pleasure is up to introduce the navigation on this site. After a life whole expense to live and to know this splendid earth of the Sannio, has thought about offering my hospitality to whom has not known Fragneto Monforte yet or who has forgotten the ancient respect of the time, the yielded signs of the flowers of these lawns, the impassioned tastes, the intense and vivid colors. With a small secret: to follow the slow rhythm of the silences and the peace of these earths, noble Earths of Fragneto to me so dear. My hands, by now knotty and tired have worked her this earth; at times soaked with moist sweat, at times sharp and sharp as steel blade. But from last, finally and this is the memory that I put aside more intense, sweet and impassioned as a night in summer . Welcome, friends, at Il Casino degli ulivi. The name Fragneto derives from "FARNETUM ", that is wood of farnia, a variety of oak spread in past on the territory. The first historical news makes to go up again to the noble Longobardi beneventani the foundation of the "castrum" or suburb around the year Thousand. In the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) best man the appellative "Monteforte" what it will become "Monforte " beginning from the century XVII. Close to this first feud, in the ancient ones papers you/he/she is mentioned a second, denominated " Fragneto Rao Pinella " from the name of the vassal of the epoch Rao Rotten de, said Pinella, from which derives the name of the region Rapinella. In the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Rao it gave to the monastery of S. Sofia of Benevento the church of S. Maria with attached good, probably the same one that be itself in the place Rapinella today, reduced by now to ruin. In Norman epoch (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Fragneto Monforte is often mentioned in the list of the vassals. In the first halves the XII century belonged to Bartolomeo. This family, thanks to an aware politics and to contemplated marriages, in epoch angioina succeeded in magnifying his own possessiones and to preserve them for more than three centuries. In the XIV and XV centuries Fragneto Monforte crosses tragic events: before the terrible one (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) earthquake, then the occupation of the Aragonesi and the following one recapture from the Angioinis, during the struggles for the succession to the throne of Giovanna II, and it anchors the disastrous earthquake of the " night of S.Barbara " of (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , that it destroyed the suburb from the foundations. It was reconstructed shortly in the same place time, but the calamities continued. Nel (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) , in period Aragonese, Cola II Monforte , gentleman also in the county of Termoli, it rebelled him to the king Ferdinando The First that it made to devastate the rebellious counties. Subsequently, with the pardon, it returned him partly to his child Angelo Monforte . Under the dominion of Cola II Monforte the feuds reached the maximum power and extension. His/her possessiones in Capitanata , in Ultra Principato and in Molise they formed a real is that went from the Sannio to the Adriatic, with the right to coin coins. Its rebellion to the central power was dictated by spirit of autonomy over that from a politics antiaragonese. To the arrival of Carlo VIII , king of France, on all the earths of the Monfortes, reinstated in their full possession from the count of Valois, the banner is hoisted French. Dopo the failure of the consignment to work of the Saint Lega , June 2 nd (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Ferdinando II with his allies it puts to sack and fire Fragneto among immense atrocities, producing the admirable event of the Madonna of the Rondinella . You learns, in fact, from historical documents, that a swallow leaned him on the hand of the Jesus child shaking the wings rejected the flames that by now it had entirely devoured the church, the cloth with the image some Madonna was so safe. Today the picture is exposed in the church of Santa Maria the Nova in Naples . Con the defeat French finishes the dominion of the Monforte , whose possessiones they are reinstated by Fred of Aragon to Andrew of Capua, that gets also the title of count of Campobasso and Montagano. In the following ones 90 years the feud of Fragneto it will be sold well 5 times. Nel (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) enter in possession of the family Montalto , that will receive the in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) duke's title of Fragneto and it will preserve him/it up to the abolition of the feudalità. To the heirs of the family Montalto it belongs today the ducal Building , well preserved, thanks to the launchings restaurations, among which that operated to the beginnings of the XVII century from Massimo Montalto , first duke of Fragneto . Imposing it is the portal of the century XVIII on whose key of arc is engraved the coat of arms of the lineage with the emblems of the Caracciolo .