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C.I. SAN VALENTINO IN ABRUZZO CITERIORE
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Former Bourbon Prison
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Welcome to the former Bourbon Prison - Monte Frumentario
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The building of Bourbon origin is located in the area known as Porta Grande, which allowed access to the upper part of the town, between the Mother Church and the Farnese Palace. On November 10 and 11, the annual San Martino Fair was held there, established in 1853. The building, used as a prison until the 1980s, in the past counted among its most famous "guests" Carmina Pelaccia of San Valentino, known as Papé, who was convicted in 1865 for collusion with brigandage, for having given shelter to the brigand from Roccamorice, Nicola Marino, alias Occhi di Celli.
Interesting is the inscription on an architrave of a previous building, PAUPERŨ ET ECCLESIAE PIO MONTI FRUMENTARIO/CONSTRUCTUM A.D. MDCCXVI. The grain banks were established at the end of the 15th century with the aim of distributing to poor farmers, with the obligation of restitution, the wheat and barley they needed for sowing. In each municipality of the Kingdom, there was a Congregation of Charity to administer the assets intended for the benefit of the poor and charitable works. The Congregation of Charity of San Valentino administered, in addition to the grain bank, several lay chapels and brotherhoods of the town, among which the most important was that of the Sacred Mount of the Dead, erected in the church of S. Donato.
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