Aloft, before the Throats of the Salinello widen in an ample basin of pastures, a rocky spur entertains one of the fortitudes more isolated and suggestive than Abruzzo. second Legacy the name and the popular tradition to the king Svevo Manfredi, the imposing Castel Manfrino gets up to 963 meters quota, in sight of the tops of the Mountain of Campli and the Mountain of the Flowers, in a place already occupied by a Roman Castrum. Here it arrived, after having climbed over the Laga, also the enigmatic street Metella. Over that with a Long, uncomfortable and suggestive path from Ripe, the castle is reached with a brief walk by the few houses of Stain from sun. Enough a quarter of now afoot to reach the suggestive tower leaned out on the throats and the "twin mountains"; Castel Manfrino (sec. XI-XIII), wanted fortress of the king Swabian Manfredi to watch of the confinements among is Pontifical and Kingdom in Naples. It tells the popular tradition, that the castle was connected from a long underground tunnel, with the fortitude of Civitella that, from here it is, visible in all of his/her importance.
