The Amalfi Coast, for its enchanting beauty, bewitched even Boccaccio, who sang it in this way: ‘(…) It is believed that the coast from Reggio to Gaeta is nearly the most delightful part of Italy. Fairly close to Salerno there is a coast that looks out over the sea, which the inhabitants call the Amalfi coast, that is...
Paestum, at south of Salerno, is among the most ancient towns of Campania In fact, it was one of the main centers of the Magna Graecia and the oldest tracks of human settlement date back to the Paleolithic. At the end of the V century BC, the town was conquered by the Lucanians and lived a period of prosperity,...
There is no person in Polla who does not know the story of Maria Marmora. Anyone has heard about Maria Marmora by the grandparents; a story passed down from one generation to another, until becoming legend in the local folklore heritage. It is said that Maria Marmora was a woman who lived in the zone of the castle, it...
The Certosa di San Lorenzo has been recognized World Heritage Site by Unesco and rises at the feet of the residential area. With the form of a gridiron that remembers the martyrdom of the Saint, the building of the huge structure (13 cloisters, 41 fountains, more than 600 rooms, 1300 meters of colonnades sustained by...
The worship of Saint Vincent Ferrer in Gesualdo goes back, between history and legend, to an unusual event happened in Gesualdo. It is told that the Sicilian religious community ordered to a Spanish artist the realization of the statue of Saint Vincent Ferrer. During the transport of the statue towards its...
The Church of the Holy Piety in Teggiano is an ex-monastery. It rose in the first years of ‘300 for the Benedictine nuns. Then, in 1474, it was transformed in monastery for the Friars Minor of Saint Francis. The fifteenth-century door of the Church is a masterpiece of Renaissance wood art that, for its value, has been...
The diocesan museum is a kind of tale of the civil and religious history of Teggiano (ancient Diano) and of its diocese, represented in one of the oldest churches of the episcopal town, risen up on the ruins of a roman temple, of which only the external podium remains. The museum collection integrates the history and...
As the remains of the megalithic walls of the IV century BC testify, Atena Lucana is one of the oldest settlements of Vallo di Diano. The presence of the caves proves an even prehistoric period. It was founded by the Pelasgians with the name of Larissa, which means fortress. Of this constitution, it is still visible...
Prince Carlo Gesualdo composed in Gesualdo his madrigals, famous all over the world. Written around the middle of the fourteenth century, they are the most ancient musical poetic form. Thanks to the presence of prince Carlo, who went away from Naples after his wife’s painful honor killing, the castle of Gesualdo...
If, at the end of the summer, the visitor chooses to go through itineraries of festivals and celebrations in Irpinia, they will have to consider a stop in Mirabella Eclano, for the evocative transport of the Cart. The date is fixed: on the Saturday before the third Sunday of September, day in honor of Our Lady of...
