La Chiesa di S. Maria della Misericordia a Pignataro Maggiore fu costruita nel 1757. I lavori ebbero inizio per volontà di Giuseppe Maria Zurlo, vescovo di Calvi dal 1756 al 1782. La costruzione affiancava la vecchia chiesa del 1559, che non poteva più contenere l’accresciuta popolazione. Nella vecchia e antica...
Per questo Ponte romano la via Appia entrava in Benevento. .. Sotto le sue quattro arcate (un tempo cinque) scorre il fiume Sabato, che ricorda antiche leggende di streghe in folli sarabande sulle sue rive… Il Ponte Leproso rappresentava il tratto di accesso in città attraverso la via Appia che conduceva a Brindisi e...
The Cathedral of S. Maria Maggiore was built around the end of 1200, by Charles of Anjou, as symbol of reward towards the Princes Sanseverino, lords of Diano, who helped him in the war against the Swabians. Among the art works preserved inside it, it stands out the pulpit sculpted by Melchiorre from Montalbano in 1271...
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...
Maybe not everyone knows that, in the Decameron by Boccaccio, three of the one hundred novellas have as protagonists people from Salerno: a merchant from Ravello, a prince of Salerno and his daughter and a master of the Schola Medica Salernitana. The first of these is told in the second day by Lauretta and has as...
Visiting Gesualdo, the entrance porticos of the ancient residential area appear characteristic. This area develops around the medieval castle with its characteristic concentric circular shape. Among narrow lanes, alleys and passages, the ancient village of Gesualdo offers to the sight suggestions and impressive...
In Rocca San Felice, there is the suggestive archaeological area of the Ansanto Valley, also called Mephitis. The scenery is that of an arid and desolate flat area of grayish color with yellow stains (sulfur), without vegetation. Under a precipice, there is the little lake called Mephitis, characterized by the gases...
Megaride is a minor island of the Gulf of Naples on which Castel dell’Ovo rises. Originally, it was separated from the dry land by a short sea strait, but today it is all one with it. The ancient myth of the islet of Megaride evokes how, in the Nineteenth century, it was the most stormy place of the sea of Chiatamone,...
A visit to the Archaeological Park of Conza The origins of Conza della Campania, little town almost completely abandoned after the earthquake of 1980, have very ancient origins. The ruins of the Roman town are reemerged under the ruins of the modern village of Conza, exactly after the earthquake. A project of...
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...
