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Lama dei Peligni is a comune and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy of 1 155 inhabitants It is also part of the Aventino-Medio Sangro mountain community and the municipal territory is included in the Majella National Park. The town, known to naturalists as the country of chamois, is located in a florofaunal area of particular interest.

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Religious architecture

 * Church of San Falco and Sant'Antonino. Parish church of the town, was built in the 12th century, after the earthquake of 1706, it was built again, while maintaining the bell tower of the fourteenth century. In World War II it was heavily bombed and the whole building, minus the bell tower, jumped into the air. It was reopened in 1953, with the new body built, following the forms of the late Baroque style. It has a basilica plan with transept, in red brick, with a façade punctuated by a rose window. Above the transept is a small octagonal dome. The stone bell tower of the Maiella, is a sturdy tower marked in three levels, with a final cusp above the lantern. The church preserves the relics of Falco di Palena, the patron saint.
 * Hermitage of Our Lady of the Altar It is located to the left of State road 84 between the Valico della Forchetta and the Monte Porrara, to the left of the [Aventine (river)| Aventine]] It was founded by monks celestines near a rocky buttress where Pietro da Morrone lived in a cave for about four years. Since 1970 the complex has been the property of the municipality.
 * Church of San Cataldo. It is located in San Cataldo along State Road 84. It was built in the [11th century]] but was reworked after World War II due to the serious damage it suffered. The façade is in the typical structure of Abruzzo religious architecture. On the sides of the portal there are two classic devotionis windows typical of churches rural. On the sides of the church there are three windows on each side. The block added on the back acted as sacristy. The interior, at a single nave has a altar made of stucco and a statue of plaster located on the bottom. Another statue, depicting St. Catald, was taken to another place after the church was closed to worship. However, the church is a destination for the saint's festivities.

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Palaces

 * Birthplace of Vincenzo Tobia Nicola Bellini', is located at the intersection of Corso Umberto I with via Coste, at the church of San Giacomo. It is the birthplace of the grandfather of the Sicilian composer Vincenzo Bellini is in mixed style, between the late nineteenth-century neoclassical and the rural style in plastered stone blocks.


 * Palazzo Persichetti'. It is located in Corso Umberto I. It's a noble palace. From the style of the façade overlooking the course it can be seen that the palace was built between the 19th and [20th centuries]. The post-war restorations maintained the original style. The outer walls are made of bricks in the paraste. The palace is divided into three floors.
 * Fallascoso Baronial Palace. Located in the Fallascoso district, on the hill there is the small town, it is presumed to have been built in the seventeenth-eighteenth century above the castle, for the presence of fortifications at the base. It features traces of garitte at the corners.

""Pratola Peligna""

It is supposed that in Roman times there was a stranger pagus (village) peligno, who would have participated with [Corfinium]] in the social war against Rome in 91 a.C. but there are no finds to prove its existence. A tomb of the 6th century, with the kit ostrogoth, attests to the existence of a settlement, perhaps coinciding with the locality Fara de Campiliano, mentioned in the documents of the following centuries.

The first document in which the name of Pratola appears ("on site Pratulae") is an agricultural contract of 997, reported in the 'Chronicon Volturnensis'', which however does not yet refer to a inhabited center. During the 12th century a fortified center was created: in 1170 the castrum Pratulae was assigned by Normans William II to bishop Odorisio of  Pitchfork. In 1294 the fiefdom was assigned by Charles II of Angiò to the abbot of the monastery of abbey of Santo Spirito del Morrone, under whose rule Pratola will remain until 1807.

Since 1863, by royal decree, the town has taken the name of Pratola Peligna.

The history of the country is characterized by several popular ferments; to remember: in 1799 the revolt against the invasion French (together with many other municipalities of Abruzzo), the opposition to the Constitution of the Bourbon government of Ferdinand II in 1848 and the riot of 1934 against the fascist regime. During the Last World War, on August 2, 1943, the Montecatini plant, located two kilometers from the country, was bombed by the Allies.

On January 9, 2006, the municipality of Pratola was awarded the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi the bronze medal for civil merit, with the following motivation: "'Strategically important center, during the [World War II|Last World War]], it was subjected to continuous and violent bombings, which caused numerous civilian casualties and the destruction of industrial heritage. The population, forced to take refuge in the surrounding countryside, contributed to the war of liberation with the establishment of the first [[partisan] nuclei, suffering fierce retaliation from the German army. 1943/1944''".