The history of Polla comes from the dawn of times and it becomes really difficult, for anybody wants to venture into the long and deep tunnel of the past times, to establish the starting date. Neglecting, at least for now, the told history, let us try instead to analyze an aspect, important in the historiography of a...
The legends about the Stacks of the Bay between Salerno and Vietri There are two different legends that tell about the two stacks in the bay of Salerno and Vietri. In the first, the two stacks are called the two brothers. According to the legend, they are two knights, one Christian (Hamphrey from Salerno) and one...
Marked sweet taste, robust, crunchy texture and little floury: the Marrone of Roccadaspide is a real flagship of Campania. Vast territories of Cilento have favorable conditions for the cultivation of the chestnut tree, such as territories with acid reaction, or at most neutral, of volcanic origin. The chestnut groves...
The Abbey of Goleto rose in 1333 and was founded by William of Vercelli, ascetic, hermit and saint. He dedicated most part of his life and his mission to Irpinia. Even the foundation of the Monastery of Montevergine owes to him (1126). The cloistered nuns of the Abbey have given birth and impulse to the local...
A different tale of Naples offers a mysterious itinerary of the city. First of all, in Naples it is present in the subsoil a thick net of galleries, called ‘Napoli Sotterranea’ (Underground Naples). The gate that leads to this magic and evocative world is in Piazza San Gaetano. Some of these galleries are very...
Scampìa, district of the north suburbs of Naples, is surely a place of an unusual itinerary! Nevertheless, Scampìa is a territory where creativity is expressed in thousands of forms, combined with the noble aim of making its own capabilities available for everybody. In this way, it rises Gridas, group The awakening of...
In the old town center of Naples, in the district Pendino in Forcella, there is the eighteenth-century Church of the Santissima Annunziata Maggiore linked to the touching story of the abandoned babies. The majestic structure, masterpiece of Vanvitelli, is located between Spaccanapoli and Corso Umberto I. Therefore,...
The Palace of Frederick II, also called Casinò del Principe, stays in a place full of history, a hamlet of Calvi ‘Il Cubante’ whose name comes from Leo Cubans (the lying Lion). In this place, it passed the Appian Way that went to Eclano. Moreover, here it would have held the Battle between Tiberius Gracchus and the...
The hamlet of Campolattaro is included in the Comunità Montana del Titerno e dell’Alto Tammaro. The name Campolattaro comes from the toponym ‘Campuguttari’, which means ‘Field of Walthario’, proper name used by the Lombards. Therefore, the Lombard origin attests the antiquity of the hamlet. The transformation of the...
The pizza figliata of the province of Caserta has a really bizarre name. First of all, the pizza figliata is not a pizza but a dessert. Somebody asserts that the nickname ‘figliata’ (meaning that it has made children) depends on the fact that it tends to break into many small honey balls. Others believe that it...
