Dimora Fresilia

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Dimora Fresilia is located inside an eighteenth-century building, once owned by wealthy herd families who had built their wealth with the breeding of transhumant sheep between Abruzzo and Puglia. Like all buildings of the time, the OPI one is flanked by a chapel that can be reached directly from the inside. The building currently houses the Town Hall, while in a side wing, which was used as a kindergarten until the 1960s, the hostel called Fresiia was built in the early 1980s. The name "Fresilia" recalls a mythical pre-Roman city, also mentioned by Tito Livio, consisting of the set of villages presumably located on the slopes of Mount Marsicano, where there are still walls and buttresses from ancient times. The Samnite necropolis located on the other side of the valley, at the entrance to Val Fondillo, testifies to its presence. The structure is accessed by a staircase that leads to a large room for common activities and continues to the 2 upper floors where the 7 rooms of the structure are located, simple but comfortable, some of which with a spectacular view over the valley of the Sangro river and on the mountains of Val Fondillo and Camosciara.