San Giovanni Lipioni is a small village and comune located at the southernmost tip of province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy, on a 545-metre (1,788 ft) hill overlooking the river Trigno valley.

Starting from the 14th century, the village was under the Kingdom of Naples through the Aragon and the D'Avalos family, of Spanish origin, who held possessions in the nearby coastal town of Vasto.

After the end of World War II, because of severe poverty and high unemployment, the village suffered a considerable emigration towards richer Northern Italy areas, especially in the town of Bologna, where a sizeable community live nowadays.

On every second Saturday of October, the food feast of the scurpelle—simple salted sourdough batons, 20 to 30 centimetres (8 to 12 in) long, deep-fried in olive oil and eaten as such, accompanied by a glass of new red wine—is made to celebrate Santa Liberata.

Local food specialities include the ventricina, a usually round-shaped salami made of fresh pork finely chopped and mingled with bits of lard, ground dried red medium-spicy peppers, fennel seeds, and coarse salt, usually prepared during the colder winter days of January (after the first snow falls it is tradition to slaughter a pig), then hanged on the ceiling in a dry room and seasoned for usually more than one month until ready to be sliced and served with freshly baked bread as an appetizer.