Roseto Vallortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia. In the suyle of medieval villages, the town is organized around a large central square. Facing the square is the Palazzo Marchesale, the palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine-Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-uile roofs.