The olive is called cornacchiola, and at Vietri the biggest ones do not go to the mill: they are salted, stirred several times a day for five or six days, dried in the sun for a week, then washed in warm water and dressed with oil, salt, garlic and oregano. Since 2020 it has been on the list of traditional food products.
The town is called the gateway to Lucania, because it is the first you meet coming from Campania, and it climbs across several rises: the bottom sits at 200 metres and the old centre reaches 405. In the mother church there is a Madonna and Child that Paolo de Matteis painted around 1718. There are 2,917 residents.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of May and the second of July
Vietri di Potenza celebrates Saint Anselm the Martyr on the first Sunday of May and the second Sunday of July; the town's mother church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Myra.
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Outside Vietri di Potenza, but an easy day trip away.
