We were in Casalincontrada, in the province of Chieti, also known as the land of earthen housing.
The phenomenon of earthen houses can be found in most of the provinces of Chieti, Pescara and Teramo. They became massively widespread in the first half of the 19th century, and were made from a mixture of earth and straw, certainly the least expensive at the time. Today earthen houses are isolated episodes in the Abruzzo countryside, witnesses of a peasant memory
Often abandoned or reduced to ruins, they are a world architectural heritage and a dying world to be visited as soon as possible.
But the village nestled in the foothills of the Maiella is also the starting point for a new travel experience through seven municipalities, included between the two sheep-tracks that ran from Abruzzo to Puglia. A new form of tourism that is an authentic living experience in which the tourist interacts with the people, history and traditions of the place.
