5. FRANCAVILLA FONTANA – How did it all begin?

History and legend are braided in one thread.

5. FRANCAVILLA FONTANA – ORIGIN STORIES

For a long time, all I knew about the founding of Francavilla was from the ubiquitous images of its legend hanging in most old houses in town, and in the houses of the many Francavillesi who live elsewhere, and from the one that was hanging in my father’s room, now hanging in mine, an old print from a wood etching,…