In the alleys of ancient Teggiano, in an old house, there is the Museum. It stores a wide collection of tools and objects once used by the people of Vallo di Diano. Here, the visitors can see, perfectly reconstructed, the workspaces of the ancient artisans: that of the cobbler, with the stall and the molds for the...
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,...
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 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...
An exciting journey at the center of the Earth like a real speleologist to discover the wonders of nature and live again the millennial history of Vallo di Diano. In the Speleo-Archaeological Museum of Pertosa and in the Multimedia Civic Museum of Padula, the new technologies allow deepening the history of Vallo di...
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 plaque of Polla (Lapis Pollae) is an epigraph in Latin and stays in front of the Taverna del Passo, along the state highway 19 of Calabrie. Lapis Pollae is a ‘milestone’ of Roman age, an inscription on stone that gives news about the building of Via Annia, which connected Reggio to Capua. It was realized around...
Cilento, together with Vallo di Diano, is one of the richest zones in festivals in the summer months of the province of Salerno. Festivals that find a wonderful frame, given that the zone of Cilento and Vallo di Diano has been declared World Heritage Site by Unesco. In ancient times, Cilento was part of Lucania...
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...
On the south-west slope of Vallo di Diano, in Cilento, with its magnificent medieval village, the Municipality of Sanza, set among the mountains of the chain of Cervati, opens the valley to the Gulf of Policastro. Sanza, before the Lucanian and the Roman presence, has always had a strategic and commercial importance...
