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Sanctuaries

  • The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Cervato or della Neve

    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.

  • POZZUOLI - The Sanctuary of San Gennaro alla Solfatara

    It has been in the heart of the Neapolitans for centuries. In that place on the ancient Via Domitiana, in the stretch that leads from Pozzuoli to Agnano, the story tells of the last moments in the life of San Gennaro, the beloved patron saint of the city of Partenope.

  • Calvanico – S. Michael Peak

    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.

  • CASTELLAMMARE DI STABIA - Sanctuary of St. Mary of Pozzano

    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.

  • SANT’ANGELO IN FORMIS – the Abbey of St. Michael archangel

    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.

  • BUONALBERGO - The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Macchia

    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.. 

  • ROCCAMONFINA - Sanctuary of St. Mary of the Lattani

    A path through the green of the chestnut trees that from the center of Roccamonfina reaches the summit of Mount Lattani, in the heart of the ancient caldera of the now extinct volcano. Not only a splendid walk in nature, to conquer the spectacular views of the nearest mountains, up to the Matese and, even further, to the Phlegraean coast. But the ascent to a place of history and faith: the sanctuary of Holy Mary of the Lattani.

  • SANT'ANGELO IN FASANELLA - Sanctuary of St. Michael Archangel

    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.

  • NOVI VELIA - Sanctuary of the Sacred Mount

    unescoIt 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

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  • S. ANGELO DEI LOMBARDI - Goleto Abbey

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

  • MERCOGLIANO – The Sanctuary of Montevergine

    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.

  • The Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary

    It was an autumn afternoon, the 13th 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

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Map of Sanctuaries in Campania