On the Tratturo: the Decumanus

To take a step on the ancient pavement, to make your journey coincide with the thousand-year-old crossings, to walk on the tratturo that in Saepinum becomes the Decumanus, the main urban road. This is the extraordinary harmony that can be perceived within the Archaeological Park of Sepino, in which anthropic landscapes have shaped the passage of time, offering contemporary travellers perspectives on ancient cultures in motion. The tratturo between Pescasseroli andCandela traces a 211 km long route; in the stretch located on the slopes of the Matese mountains it connects the urban centres of Saepinum and Bovianum and other secondary settlements dedicated to rest and refreshment, production and processing, devotion and prayer. But in Saepinum the sheep track enters the municipium, runs through it and becomes a city, becoming an entrance that leads to other destinations, other journeys, other encounters. Movements and exchanges marked by the coming and going of people who, following the path of transhumance, have developed economic, religious and cultural practices, leaving the signs of their journey. Proceed, therefore, slowly on the paving that has welcomed the passage of peoples to find the sequences of time and the stories that are part of our cultural heritage.