San Donato Val di Comino

San Donato Val di Comino sits at 728 meters on the eastern wall of the Val di Comino, the last Lazio village before the Forca d'Acero pass crosses into Abruzzo at 1,538 meters. The Samnite town of Cominium stood near here until the Romans destroyed it in 293 BC. The current village formed around the Church of San Donato in the 12th century.

The Jewish community here is among the better-documented in southern Italy: forced to wear the badge in the 13th century, expelled and readmitted through the medieval period, and in 1940 the village became one of the internment locations chosen by the Fascist regime for foreign Jews, a story documented in the Casa della Memoria. The position at the foot of the Forca d'Acero pass makes the village the standard starting point for climbing into the beech forests and the Pescasseroli plateau on the Abruzzo side.

From Naples / Salerno (NAP), about 1h 46m by car.

Rome (FCO) is about 2h 31m away.

By car from the centre of Naples 1h 51m or Pescara 2 hours.

Every town within reach of Naples / Salerno airport.