Rendez-vous à Faeto et Celle San Vito

Immersed in the green of the woods, the small village of Faeto represents, with the nearby Celle di San Vito, a Franco-Provençal linguistic oasis, a consequence of the colonization promoted by King Charles I of Anjou in the second half of the 13th century, to which his origin: the families of the soldiers of his army settled there after the siege of Lucera. The town, renowned for its ham to which it dedicates a tasty festival on the first Sunday of August, obtained from the native black pig, is a concentration of narrow and winding alleys. We visit the mother church of SS. Salvatore (1570) and the Casa del Capitano (1500), embellished with an interesting mullioned window. It is the seat of the ethnographic museum, where traditional costumes, work tools and tools for preparing bread and pasta, furnishings and period furniture are exhibited. In Piazza Rubino stands the Provençal, a monument to the historical roots of the town: the work, on which sentences in the Provencal language are engraved, consists of a triptych in marble and bronze, in whose central panel an Angevin warrior is depicted. Following Via Le Cesi Secondo, you reach the beautiful sight: a large terrace from which it is possible to admire a panorama that sweeps from the board to the mountains of the Gargano and the Gulf of Manfredonia.