On the most awaited night, the flow rate suddenly increased and the water quickly rose into the tub, until it was full.

In the serene midsummer night, the whole town keeps watch, united in waiting for the The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Cervato or della Nevebells of the mother church to start ringing. Since time immemorial, every 26 July has been the beginning of one of the most significant community moments for the children of Sanza and for many other Cilento faithful.

As far as the eye can see, framing the nearest mountains, children of the Picentini range, and then, in every other directions, the Lattari, the Alburni, the unmistakable Vesuvius and, further away, the chains of Partenio and Matese, up to the Gulf of Naples and even the outline of the island of Ischia when the sky is clear.

It had been several nights now that that fire returned to the fall of darkness. Very hard to explain because no one seemed to have lit it near the old well from which, for some time, water was no longer taken. The recurring fire aroused curiosity, but also fear among the people of the hill of Pozzano, not far from the sea where the brackish breeze came. And none of them had come close.

Covered with dense woods, Mount Tifata was dedicated to Diana the huntress goddess, Artemis of the Greeks, who introduced its cult among the coastal cities first and then in the hinterlands as their influence among indigenous peoples increased. The Etruscans then extended their dominion in the area and erected the federal sanctuary of the Etruscan cities in Campania, dedicating it to Diana Tifatina.

An oasis surrounded by greenery, among ancient and imposing elms. A place of silence and meditation for many, of prayer. There, where nine centuries ago a group of Crusaders returning from the Holy Land decided to secure a wooden statue found in the east in a thicket of vegetation. It depicted a Madonna with Child and was of clear Byzantine origin and manufacture.. 

The sanctuary cave of St. Michael Archangel

On the Alburni, in the area of Sant’Angelo a Fasanella which already welcomed pilgrims heading to the Costa Palomba for the Antece in ancient times, there is a cavethat was already frequented in prehistoric times.

It has been a pilgrimage destination between the last Sunday of May and the first of October for seven centuries. On the "mount of the idol", according to the Arabic etymology of the name Gelbison, at 1705 meters in altitude, stands the Sanctuary of the Sacred Mount of Novi Velia, an ancient place of Marian

It can be considered another chapter in the story begun in Montevergine by friar Guglielmo da Vercelli, patron saint of Irpinia.

The stillness on the high mountain told him that this was the place. After following the Camino de Santiago and wandering through Italy with the dream of reaching Jerusalem, William of Vercelli reached Irpinia and felt a strong call to that mountain covered in woods.

It was an autumn afternoon, the 13^th of November 1875, when the group of the faithful, who used to gather in the valley of Pompeii to pray the Rosary together with the Neapolitan Bartolo Longo, saw appearing a barrow usually used for the transport of manure. The carter, a certain Angelo Tortora, stopped in front of what was remaining of the church of SS. Salvatore, used as a parish for the very few souls living in the countryside at