Campli (Abruzzese: Chimblë) is a town and comune in the province of Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

[3] The towns of Bellante, Civitella del Tronto, Sant'Omero, Teramo, Torricella Sicura, Valle Castellana are nearby.

The French captured the town under François de Guise in 1557 during his failed campaign against the Spanish in the Kingdom of Naples.

The festival was founded by Fernando Aurini who was seeking to attract tourists and disseminate information about the town which once comprised a portion of the holdings of the powerful Farnese family.

From a beautiful sixteenth-century portal worked with diamond points and coming from the convent of Sant'Onofrio, you enter the interior, where a staircase of twenty-eight steps of polished wood and smooth begins the ascent of the penitent, religiously kneeling.