The Cassa di Risparmio dell’Aquila Foundation will be alongside the Municipality of Sulmona for all the initiatives relating to the candidacy for the Italian Capital of Culture of the city of Ovid. This was announced by Domenico Taglieri, president of the Foundation, retracing the fundamental stages in the history of Sulmona, from its foundation as an Italic city of ancient origins, already attested in pre-Roman times in the vast “terrace”, bordered by the Gizio river and the Vella stream, along the which wound the sheep track beaten in every epoch by the transhumant flocks with which commercial and cultural currents flowed into this territory, as testified by Tito Livio.
Fortified city of the Peligni, in the heart of Abruzzo, Sulmo actively participated in the Italic League, which in the 1st century BC. C. opposed Rome; during the imperial period it was an important Municipium and Diocese already in the 5th century. Then the capital of the Abruzzo province in the Swabian era. There are numerous illustrious personalities to whom he gave birth: among his most famous sons, the poet Publio Ovidio Nasone (43 BC – 17/18 AD), the cantor of Love and Metamorphosis; in addition, the humanist Barbato, a friend of Petrarch, the poet Giovanni Quatrario (14th century), the scholar Ercole Ciofano (16th century, maximum translator of Ovid), the philosopher and jurist Giuseppe Capograssi (1889-1956). , the oldest in the world granted by a sovereign, stands the initials SMPE, initials of the famous Ovidian hemistich Sulmo Mihi Patria Est, ‘Sulmona is my homeland’, which this community has chosen to fully express, and with unparalleled pride, the loyal and a deep feeling of “belonging” to the homeland, the indissoluble bond with the native land and with one’s own roots. In addition to its precious heritage of history and culture, Sulmona also boasts a happy geographical location, in the heart of Abruzzo, between mountains and sea and a rich environmental heritage, at the center of a system of parks and nature reserves.
Furthermore, the peculiarities of the foothills area of the Badia hamlet should be mentioned, a unicum rich in historical, architectural, artistic, archaeological, religious and environmental testimonies. In fact, the approximately three square kilometers between the abbey of Santo Spirito al Morrone and the former logistic base of Fonte d’Amore (the notorious prison camp no.78) constitute an authentic district of memory and spirituality – pagan and Christian – for the presence of very emblematic and symbolic places: the same celestine abbey which was the general seat of the monastic order founded by Celestino V, the hermitage of Sant’Onofrio, the Italic temple dedicated to Ercole Curino, the concentration camp in which prisoners of both the Great War and the Second World War were imprisoned. Sulmona is also known for confetti, the first notation of which dates back to the fourteenth century. Valuable, for its typicality, is the red-tunic garlic, a cultivar used – for its high organoleptic qualities – in gastronomy and pharmaceuticals, the famous red garlic of Sulmona known and appreciated all over the world.
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TAGLIERI: THE CARISPAQ FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF SULMONA, THE ITALIAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE