In Mirabella Eclano, in August, history has been on stage, with a project carried out by the Events and Tourism Department of the Municipality in collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendence of Campania. For one night, the ancient Aeclanum has lived again, thanks to the historical reconstruction of the siege...
Do not hope to do shopping in shops that show handcrafted products off, in Vallo di Diano the sole opportunity is tracking down the few surviving laboratories or talking to the elderly, who during the summer sit down at the front of the door of their houses and intertwine baskets, carve bowl or embroider. In Padula,...
Guided by the friars between ornaments and sacred vestments in the Museum of Saint Francis in Montella The objects and the sacred vestments exposed to the Opera Museum (MdO) annexed to the Monumental Complex of Saint Francis in Folloni (Montella), instituted in 1999, are of great historic and artistic value. Thanks to...
Faraway from the noises of the earthly life, secluded on Mount Cervati, in the territory of Sanza, the house of the Archconfraternity of Saint Mary of the Snow rises up. The shrine of Sanza, built around the X century, as it can be read in an epigraph conserved there, has a plant compliant with the period of building:...
The legend tells that at the Certosa of St. Lawrence in Padula, for the passage of King Charles V of Spain, triumphant back from the Battle of Tunis, the friars prepared as breakfast an omelet made with a rather substantial number of eggs. Charles V has defeated the Turkish admiral Khayr al Din, known as Barbarossa;...
The Museum of the Herbs of Teggiano, with Viridarium, represents the reference point of numerous social categories from the professionals to the students, the farmers, the artisans, the housewives, the researchers, the scholars, the onlookers of the Province of Salerno and Region Campania. The Museum of the Herbs has...
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...
In the heart of the Apennine of Campania, between the provinces of Avellino and Salerno, there is a geographical area of high strategic importance from the natural and territorial point of view: it is the Regional Park of the Monti Picentini. This park is a protected natural area instituted in 1995 and takes its name...
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 lake of Conza is an artificial basin built in a natural alluvial plain. It has a surface of about 800 hectares and a maximum depth of 25 meters. It has been generated with the building of a dam wanted to collect water for irrigation use for Region Apulia, which has barred the course of the river Ofanto, one of the...
