The legend of Saint Marciano is a legacy of cultural and ethical value that the citizens of Frigento preserve jealously in their conscience. After the Council of Ephesus, which definitively had ratified the deposition of the bishop Julian of Eclanum, Pope Leo the Great wanted to nominate bishop of that Diocese a young...
Rendezvous with the traditional festival at the end of July in Frigento The cuisine of Frigento is traditionally a folk cuisine whose recipes are characterized by the easiness of execution and the ingredients, almost exclusively coming from the fields. The lands are mainly occupied by olive groves and vineyards but...
The naturalist traveler will find great satisfaction admiring the vegetation and the fauna of the urban park ‘Panorami di Frigento‘ (Frigento Landscapes). The vegetation is part of the phytoclimatic area of the chestnut tree. We can find the chestnut tree on the sides of the mountain where the substratum is copious and...
One of the most famous sons of Frigento was Marciano Di Leo (1751-1819), canon of the cathedral, historian, politician, poet, philosopher, author of Vesuvio, a work in verses dedicated to the Vesuvius’s eruption on August 8, 1779. The interest of the work of Di Leo is based on the fact that it blends the scientific...
Frigento is a village in the heart of Irpinia that has known how to combine the opening to the modernity with the respect and the enhancement of its own history. The old town center, inhabited for more than two thousand years, is almost a photography of Frigento of the second half of the Eighteenth century. The...
