| In May the town of Atessa comes to life for the ritual of the "ntorcia of San Martino" The worshippers leave Atessa bearing a great wax torch and the procession proceeds along the Sangro, Aventino and Verde valleys, as far as the Santo Spirito gorge, near Fara San Martino, the site of the monastery of San Martino in Valle. This piligrinage is rooted in an ancient agricultural rite. |