Within a radius of about twenty-five kilometres from Termoli travellers can reach the hilltowns of Larino, Casacalenda, Montorio and Montelongo which preserve a way of life which is disappearing in other, more developed, parts of Italy.

The amphitheatre, in the upper town, was constructed in the 1st century AD by a prominent citizen of Larino who had made his fortune in far away Rome.

After appearing in just one match for the first team, in the Intertoto Cup in July 2001, Grande was loaned back to Serie C side Frosinone, and then later played in Serie D with U. S. Frenter Larino and Potenza and Albalonga.

He was transferred to the diocese of Larino, in the Molise, on 23 February 1727.

Near the present-day town of Larino in the Molise ( then called Larinum ), Hannibal had taken up position in a town called Gerione.

Larino ( Latin: Larinum, Campobassan dialect: Larìne ) is a town and comune of approximately 8, 200 inhabitants in Molise, province of Campobasso, southern Italy.

The Samnites were composed of at least four tribes: the Pentri ( the most important tribe, capital: Bovianum ), the Caraceni ( principal cities: Cluviae, the modern Casoli, and Juvanum, the ruins of which are spread between Torricella Peligna and Montenerodomo ), the Caudini ( capital: Caudium, today Montesarchio ) and the Hirpini ( Oscan for wolf ; capital Beneventum ), and later may have been joined by the Frentani ( capital Larinum, the modern Larino ).

* Civitella ( Larino ), a locality or frazione in the comune of Larino in the province of Campobasso

As a result Larino has become an important centre for tourism and scores of expatriates from all over the world are returning to live in the revived centro storico ( antique centre ).

The city of Larino has been continuously inhabited for millennia.

It also has its own cultivar of olive, known as the Gentile di Larino, which is highly prized for its oil.

During World War II the radio reported that Larino had been totally destroyed in a bombardment.

In the valley between Larino and Gerione, Minucius decided to make a broad frontal attack on Hannibal's troops.

Larino ), and northern Apulia.

Aerial view of Larino.

When Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great fought for the power in Rome, the latter is said to have joined two of his legions who were encamped in Larino.

* Dr. Robert Gardner Photostream: Larino

Grande began his career in Italy, country of his parents, playing for four years with U. S. Frenter Larino and Potenza and Frosinone in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

He wrote of Larino ’ s earliest days prior to its conquest by Rome, the onslaught of the barbarians, the Saracens, and the Normans.

Since the essential physical structure of the Cathedral in Larino ( 1312 ) is unaltered, his description on the monumental entrance way of this minor basilica can be followed by the present day observer.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

Pamela was glad Jim was nowhere near.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

This one was actually more of a `` near miss ''.

Seated near it with his back to the door was the rancher, Ed Dunn.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.

Land was near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days after leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles away, the coast of Orissa.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.

Annisberg was about seventy-five miles west of Birmingham, near the Georgia border and on the Tallahoosa River, a small and dirty stream.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.