| The church of San Gemma of the XVI century. Its facade has three portals of the XIX century. Each year, since 100 years, the feast of Santa Gemma Vergine is celebrated, a young contry-girl that came from San Sebastiano dei Marsi, that pastured her flock near Forca Caruso. One day the count Ruggero Piccolomini of Celano, going on horseback on his land, noticed her and fell immediately in love with her, she refuse him and ran away from him and hid in a house in Goriano Sicoli until she died, at a very earlu age. To evoke this great even, on the 11th of May, at one o'clock, on the outskirts of the village arrive the inhabitants of the two villages. The church bells ring and there are fireworks, when the two groups hoin to go up to the church. |