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Easily reached from Pescara, from here you can organize various tours offering splendid views of the Gran Sasso massif. Bisenti is a charming village where you can refresh yourself in the numerous cafés and restaurants and sample local delicacies, among which "chocolate" stands out. Ask around and they'll point you in the right direction.

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The building, indicated by popular belief as the "house of Pontius Pilate", has inside a well connecting to a qanat, that is, an underground hydraulic system, with characteristics completely analogous to a water supply system that brings water from a spring from Etam to Jerusalem. Therefore, if we want to identify a historical basis for the legend, we can hypothesize that, after his dismissal, having returned to his Bisenti, Pontius Pilate, waiting to receive instructions from the Roman authorities regarding his future, still politically influential and "connected", before being sent into exile, had time to build an aqueduct very similar to the water infrastructure that a few years before he had built in Jerusalem, making sure that the main tunnel, before reaching the supply source in a public fountain, passed through his "domus" so as to draw water directly from the house. Source QR code signage in front of the entrance to the house.

Current town hall of Bisenti.

Bisenti is a municipality in the Fino Valley. Historical traces identify the house of Pontius Pilate in the settlement of the ancient Roman city of Beregra (now Bisenti).

In the Sanctuary square, near the old Church, fresh water.

The Sanctuary is located at the foot of the Gran Sasso, on the Teramo side of the municipality of Isola del Gran Sasso. The old church from 1908, the Passionist convent and the new complex of the new sanctuary, as well as the headquarters of the periodical Eco di San Gabriele, make up the entire complex. In the old church, the tomb of San Gabriele can still be visited, even though his remains have been taken to the new sanctuary. San Gabriele is the patron saint of Abruzzo and every year the sanctuary is a destination for pilgrimages.