Sarconi is called the little Mesopotamia of the Val d'Agri, because it sits on a tongue of land between two rivers, the Maglia and the Sciaura. Water is what made its fortune: the Sarconi bean has IGP status and is sold outside Italy.
On the name there are two schools: those who draw it from the Latin sarculum, land to be worked, and those from the Greek sarkos, flesh, because the dead of a third-century BC battle between Romans and Carthaginians are said to be buried here. A Roman bridge on the via Herculea, not far off, is still called the bridge of Hannibal. There are 1,362 residents.
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📅 Every year, on 13 June
Sarconi celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua on 13 June; the church dedicated to him stands next to the mother church of Santa Maria in Cielo Assunta, in the small municipality of Basilicata included in the Appennino Lucano-Val d'Agri-Lagonegrese National Park.
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Outside Sarconi, but an easy day trip away.
