Monday 30 October 2017

Lupara, time stands still

Time stands still in Lupara


Crowning the thousand-year-old castle ruins are clocks, which tick on. still today. It seems the passage of time which has marched slowly by in this bright and friendly little village.

In 1911 there was a population of over two thousand people, now there are less than five hundred.Like all the hilltop villages in Molise, Lupara too is now sadly in decline, in common with the rest of the region was the lack of work people began to leave to s seek a better life in America, Australia, Canada and South America.




The streets so often empty I have explored them it has given me a real chance to connect with the history which seems to be hidden in the stones themselves.
 

Some houses in the village are extremely elegant, and others a little simpler, many now are empty.
Sadly like so many other places in the region.






There are views from the edge of the village over  the tumbling fields and onwards to the Adriatic sea


Lupara's pride is quite rightly is the castle which has stood with pride surveying the lands which sweep away below it to the river valley.

In common with all the castles in the region, Lupara's inhabitants toiled in the fields and fought for their Lord under the  Feudal system,. 

They battled with Flippo di Bello, the King of France, in 1270, so the village's inhabitants too in long and distant path saw many die under the sword, and in world wars too of course.


 I strode through archways, and along cobbled streets, with flowers still blooming on balconies and balustrades.


                             

Lupara in Molise, there is so much hiding in the heart of this small village.
I look forward to finding out more about the village and it is just on my doorstep will have to go along another day....
Thank you, I was delighted to make your acquaintance





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