In 2018, Campli joined the club of "The Most Beautiful Villages in Italy," one of the most prestigious national and international tourist and cultural circuits, embodying a fascinating and invaluable heritage of history, art, culture, environment, and traditions.
In this town, you will find the Sanctuary of the Holy Stairs, which holds various relics in artistic Neapolitan reliquaries, a painting of “Christ Pantocrator,” and the processional statue of the Sorrowful Virgin.
The complex consists of 28 wooden olive steps to be climbed strictly on one’s knees for the repentance of sins. Those who perform the ritual receive a Plenary Indulgence, equivalent to the one granted by the Holy Stairs in Rome. The sanctuary of Campli holds both religious and artistic-cultural significance: on both the ascent and descent of the stairs, the penitent metaphorically retraces the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ through the depiction of images on the large paintings placed on either side.
