Le Ramere di Agnone

The history of Agnone is indissolubly linked to the working of metals, and in particular to the working of copper. Here since the Samnite age this metal was used for armors, for statues and for inscriptions.
In 1404 it became a Royal City and developed an intense economic activity related to the practice of transhumance, Agnone became one of
the most conspicuous cities of the Kingdom of Naples for the supply of copper objects. In this period precise rules were established for the working of copper, those who did not respect them were sanctioned with heavy fines. The copper products, thus certified, found a market in the neighboring regions bordering Molise. Around the middle of the eighteenth century in Agnone there were almost 200 people engaged in the manufacture of copper distributed in various categories: master coppersmith, coppersmith worker, coppersmith boilermaker, tinsmith, copper seller.
This flourishing copper economy went into crisis with the industrialization era and today in Agnone there are very few who work or sell this metal.