Città Sant’Angelo - Happy Water

As the Lombards had a kind of cult of Archangel Michael, some connect the early medieval time here with them. The first document where the commune is mentioned as is "CIVITATE S. ANGELI" from the Carolingian Emperor Louis II of Italy, in 875. As Città Sant'Angelo was a Guelph town much in favor of Pope Gregory IX in the struggle against the Holy Roman Empire, it got by the troops of Frederick II, who subsequently granted the survivors the right to rebuild the town in three hamlets The reconstruction of a fortified semicircular core began after 1240. With the arrival of the monastic orders in the first half of the 14th century came the expansion of existing churches and the construction of monasteries.

Here the municipality sells drinking water for 5 cents per liter. The customer must bring his bottle and can choose between sparkling and still.