Scerni (Abruzzese: Scìrne) is a town of 3,645 inhabitants of the province of Chieti is part of the Middle Vastese.

It is distinguished by the production of olive oil, wine and sausages (the speciality is the Ventricina variety).

The only certainty is that the site where the village stands now was inhabited in prehistoric and ancient Roman times.

At the time of the French Revolution, the Baron De Riseis sided with the people of the country with Giuseppe Proni from Introdacqua, former cleric of the Marquis of Vasto, against the invasion of the Jacobins[5] On 25, 26 and 27 February 1860 more than a thousand peasants armed with clubs and halberds invaded the estate of the Marquis D'Avalos, destroying a rural house, stealing firewood and beating up the forest guards.

The peasant fury and its numerical superiority defeated the police and the urban guards of Pollutri and Monteodorisio.