Below the town, where the via Herculia ran, the Bruttii Praesentes built themselves a villa of more than 1,700 square metres. In the second century Bruttia Crispina, wife of the emperor Commodus, came to live in it; when she fell from favour and was executed, the villa passed to imperial procurators and stayed in use until the seventh century.
Higher up, at a place called la Laura — from the Greek laura, the word for a hermit community — are the caves where monks fleeing the iconoclast persecution took shelter. Today the comune lives in three pieces: the old centre at 970 metres, inside the Appennino Lucano national park, and lower down Villa d'Agri and Barricelle. There are 5,341 residents.
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📅 Every year, on 20 May
Marsicovetere celebrates Saint Bernardino of Siena on 20 May; on the slopes below the town, along the Via Herculia, stood the Roman villa that belonged to the Bruttii Praesentes, which became in the 2nd century the residence of Empress Bruttia Crispina, wife of Commodus.
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