Raiano
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Raiano is a comune and town in the Province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy
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Raiano is situated at 393 meters high in west side of Peligna Valley. Plinius the Old, in his Naturalis Historia, offered us a famous classification of Peligns people and their lands: "Paelignorum Corfinienses, Superequani et Sulmonenses".
For his geographic location, on the right side of the valley excaveted by Aterno river, Raiano lays in Corfinienses area at only 3 km from the remainder of the ancient italic city called Corfinium. On Castellone hill, CASTRUM RADIANI or Villa Raiani rised in the middleages (we have its first news in 872 a.C.). This little village, that in Xth century hosted for a short time emperors Ottone I and Ottone III, followed all middleages long feudal events of surrounding country and of the Southern Kingdom covering however a remarkable importance because of its strategical position and of north-western presidium of Peligna Valley along the old Celano-Foggia Tratturo and the ancient Tiburtina Valeria. The old centre was deserted in the second half of XV century, after many earthquakes.
