Carpino, Gargano - Puglia, Italy (4K)

If you are planning to visit Gargano, in Puglia - Italy, don’t miss the opportunity to visit Carpino too, a well-known center for the production of oil and beans.

Here some suggestions on FOOD and ACCOMMODATIONS:
Where to have a MEAL: Agriturismo Biorussi, Contrada Macchiarotonda, Carpino FG +39 0884 992513; or: Agriturismo Villa Costanza, contrada Coppa, Via della Repubblica, Carpino FG, +39 340 558 6267; or: Agriturismo Torre Bruno, Localita' Coppa Calva, Carpino FG, +39 329 146 5694
ACCOMMODATIONS: Agriturismo Villa Costanza, contrada Coppa, Via della Repubblica, Carpino FG, +39 3405586267

Carpino’s area, mainly hilly, extends between the Umbra Forest in the north and the Lake of Varano in the south. It borders with Cagnano Varano, Ischitella, Monte Sant'Angelo and Vico del Gargano.
The origins of Carpino date back to the year one thousand, when the last inhabitants of ancient Uria, an important city that once was on the shores of the current lagoon, took refuge in the hornbeam forests a few kilometers from Lake of Varano, in search of less harmful places. The origin of the name is uncertain but it would seem to be linked to the presence of roe deer or to the presence of breeding places (in vulgar Latin "Caprelis") in the surroundings of Carpino or in the presence of a thick forest of hornbeams that once covered the hill of Pastromele on which, later, the town was built.Over the centuries the name changed first into Crapino and then later to Caprino, up to the present Carpino, as reported in a local document of 1628.The town was the destination of various populations with important names like the Normans, the Angevins and the Aragonese. And were the Normans that built the Castle, which dominates the entire historic center with its imposing bulk.
Still today you can see the ruins of the ancient Norman-Swabian Castle, while the two most important churches show Baroque motifs: San Cirillo, in Piazza del Popolo, the main square of the town and the seventeenth-century Mother Church.

The importance of Carpino is linked above all to the Carpino Folk Festival, an event dedicated to the rediscovery, preservation and promotion of Italian popular music that every year, the first ten days of August, brings relevant personalities to the stage.

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