Montebello sul Sangro is a comune and town in the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

The first of which claims that the natives of the village lost a battle or war and they had to give up their wives to the winners for one night as a consequence of losing.

[4] The second story claims a king was going to the town on a night where there was a snowstorm and a blizzard.

Supposedly he came across the castle he named it “castello di malanotte” Due to the bad weather.

The name Buonanotte was kept Up until 1969 when the natives of the town decided to change it to Montebello sul sangro, the reasoning for this was when the natives of the town said they were from buonanotte other people laughed at the name.