Sulmona With your hands

Sugared almonds since 1783: the Pelino museum inside the factory

Sulmona

Sulmona was making sugared almonds long before anyone thought to put them in a museum, and the Pelino family put theirs inside the factory. The copper pans that did the work are still standing upstairs.

How the day goes

  1. The first room: patents, honours, and the elaborate bomboniere of the century before last.
  2. Then the firm's own relics, kept the way a family business keeps its history.
  3. The reconstructed workshop, with the roaster, the polisher, the mills and the mortars.

Seeing the production floor itself depends on the day — ask at the door if that is what you came for.

Where it is

Sulmona at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Sulmona, and where it is from Rome Sulmona drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 113 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 113 min Rome Sulmona

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Stazione Introdacqua 55, 67039 Sulmona (AQ), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 53drive from the middle of Rome
  • 162 kmeach way

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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Also around Sulmona

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Centro storico di Sulmona

An old village in Sulmona.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up — open air, any hour

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The cathedral of San Panfilo

A Romanesque cathedral at Sulmona, from the twelfth century.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up

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Meet at the station, follow the dog into the wood, dig up what it finds.

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