In August, in Gesualdo it takes place the Palio of the Halberd. The event of the Palio remembers an important happening of the history of the town, that is, the absolution between Prince Carlo Gesualdo and his son Emanuele on March 2, 1609. Emanuele married in Bohemia, on October 22, 1607, the beautiful Mary Polissena...
In the enchanting scenery of the Pertosa Caves, at the foot of the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, during the month of August, every year the Negro Festival takes place, kermesse of music and ethnic culture that attracts every year lots of spectators, lovers of the good music, of the still uncontaminated...
Monteverde: a suggestive place and a spectacular show When the water curtain opens, the game of lights, colors, fountains and musical arches accompany the actors, the corps de ballet and the intense voiceovers in an emotional journey, where the tale ties itself to the dream. It is a great show with water games that...
Getting lost in the village, talking with the local people, stopping to admire the immense landscape that you can enjoy from here means rediscovering the real and authentic sense of living an ancient village of Irpinia; not casually chosen as location in 1963 of a neo-realistic movie, ‘La Donnaccia’, directed by...
The death of Tatone, the mask of the Carnival. In ancient times, as in all the Municipalities of Irpinia, the Carnival started, let us say officially, on January 17, the day of Saint Anthony the Abbot. Around this saint, there was a tradition: they carried house by house a little pig, called ‘porcellùzzo ‘e...
Montaperto is an hamlet of Montemiletto clearly separated and with a precise historic and urban connotation, so as it can be considered a separate village. In Montaperto, there are a little Medieval castle, exactly Longobardic, with angular towers, the ancient Church of St. Audenio, dating back to the XII century, the...
With the enhancement of the medieval town of Sieti and its six hamlets, the ancient municipality of Giffoni Sei Casali, at 8 km far from Salerno, put between the Amalfi Coast and the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, a big program of tourist development has started. The entire community has aimed at the...
The Patron Saint of mothers and children The Shrine of Saint Gerardo Majella rises on the hill of Materdomini in the High Valley of Sele, in province of Avellino. San Gerardo Majella arrived in 1754 at the convent of the Redemptorists friars founded by Saint Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori. In Materdomini, he dedicated...
The village of Sanza is absolutely worthy for a visit. Laid down on a height, which strategically controls Bussento Valley, it preserves the typical structure of the medieval fortified center with the houses that follow in a concentric way the contour lines and are all around the Mother Church. Walking in the narrow...
The Marine Protected Area of Punta Campanella is a marine reserve instituted in 1997 and stays in the outer part of the Sorrentine Peninsula. The particular position of Punta Campanella, separated by the Bocca Piccola from the Island of Capri, dominated by the Mount San Costanzo and delimited by the Bay of Jeranto,...
