Boceto

The modern Campleses hamlet of Boceto stands isolated on a hill, immersed in the silence of the countryside.

Near the cemetery, the Church of S. Maria Assunta at the end of a small tree-lined avenue. Nicola Palma would make the toponym derive from the "excellent pasture for oxen" reared in the area. Known to historical sources since 891 because, with the nearby hamlets of Piancarani and Pagannoni Inferiore (at the time Pesuli or Pensuli) it was a fief of the fortress of Ripa Candone (or Ripacandoni, from the name of the Candoni family, owner of those lands).

Historian from Teramo Francesco Savini informs us that the Colle di Arnaro castle stood in the Boceto countryside and was sold to the Norman Siolfo in the 10th century. The gentleman Palmerio from Fano, who owned it, in 1279 had a bulwark and a lookout built in the highest part of Boceto (now a cemetery).