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A small hilltop village with a favorable position. Not, for once, for its military needs, but for a thriving agriculture, which over the centuries had its strength in viticulture.
Anticamente, quando vi sorgeva un tempio dedicato a Diana cacciatrice, apparteneva alla famiglia Ponzia.
Thick woods surround the sides of the mountains rising all around. Far higher than the hamlet of Foiano nestled in the valley crossed by the river Fortore from which it takes its name from.
It has nothing to do with the mythical hero and king of the Aeneid evoked by its name. Evandro is just the evolution of the original toponym, Rocca di Vandra, already in use before the 11th century, indicating the village perched with its castle on the hill of Monte Camino’sslopes, between Aurunci and Mainarde, watching over the Garigliano valley.
Separated by only few kilometers. Enough to keep them divided for centuries before becoming a minimum distance between the two souls of a single municipality, formally born on May 4, 1811, in the middle of the French decade.
From Monte Finestra, which dominates with the Cerreto and the Trivento the fertile valley crossed by the Satrono river, on the eastern side of the Lattari Mountains, one glance is enough to embrace them all. Thirteen historic hamlets form Tramonti, the Municipality scattered in the interior of the Amalfi Coast precisely located “intra montes” as its name indicates, which
...Il territorio di Amalfi comprende anche cinque frazioni disseminate tra il mare e i monti dell’interno, ad occidente del centro principale.
It is among the most beautiful Italian hamlets. In the Vietri sul Mare area, Albori is the smallest district and contains all the characteristic elements creating the splendours of the Coast of the Sirens: a group of coloured houses encircling the uplands, the covered alleys located on the hill and connecting it to the sea, the tower protecting the inlet, the magnificent panoramas you can admire from the different corners of the village. And a double soul, peasant and marine, which has
...Montella is not only the heart of PGI chestnuts production bearing its name, recognised as Irpinia typical product. It is also a land of springs of water.
Roasted and shredded, they appeared as an ingredient in different recipes of the “De re coquinaria” of Apicius, the famous roman chef who lived between the 1st and the 2nd century a.D and recommended the use of “nuts of Avella”, in other words the nuts.
E’ una testa di lupo, hirpus, l’elemento decorativo che caratterizza le ceramiche della necropoli di Piano Cerasulo.
I Grimaldi, Principi di Monaco, per oltre un secolo, dal 1532 al 1631, possedettero il feudo di Monteverde, l’antico Mons Viridis che già ne suo nome rappresenta la verde Irpinia.
Along th coast after Maiori,
going towards Cetara, you get to Erchie, one of the districts of Maiori and a picturesque seaside village, which opens like an amphitheatre on the sea, surrounded on the sides and behind by rock walls rich in vegetation in which houses are also nestled. There is the church of Santa Maria Assunta, which used to be a Benedictine abbey founded in 980 and suppressed in 1451, with valuable tuff
...According to the myth, in its proximity, in one of the grottoes of Taburno, Hercules succeeded one of his twelve labours killing the lion of which he would have worn the hide.
According to Titus Livius, it was a Samnites invention. Then the Romans admired it to the point that they make its name, cupedia, derive from the verb cupio, in other words “wish”.
The Saticulaof the Samnites is dominating Valle Caudina from the rock outcrop, which rises along the slopes of Monte Taburno.
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