This is the corner of Campania with no coast at all. The province of Avellino is landlocked, wedged between Puglia and Basilicata to the east, Salerno to the south and the Naples area to the west, and it covers most of Irpinia — the historic district named after the Irpini, a Samnite tribe, though the medieval Angevin district of Principato Ultra, which Avellino has headed since 1806, has no direct descent from them.
Its 118 municipalities are nearly all small: only Avellino itself and Ariano Irpino, up on the hills near the Puglian border, pass twenty thousand people. What is left is a scatter of towns across valleys and ridges — Montoro, Solofra, Mercogliano, Grottaminarda — in wine country that gave Irpinia its reputation. It is not a half-day trip: you need a car, mountain roads and the patience to go slowly.
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Hand-stretched dough, tomato, mozzarella and basil, baked in under a minute in a wood-fired oven: Neapolitan pizza is an art recognised by Unesco.
Read more →Sliced tomato, mozzarella and basil, the three colours of the flag: caprese takes its name from Capri, but no document fixes its date of birth.
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📅 Every year, on 9 November
On 9 November San Mango sul Calore celebrates its patron Saint Theodore the Martyr; the municipal territory is home to the Ponte di Annibale.
📅 Every year, on 10 November
On 10 November Marzano di Nola celebrates its patron Saint Tryphon, to whom the Chiesa di San Trifone Martire is dedicated.
📅 Every year, on 10 November
On 10 November Cairano celebrates its patron Saint Leo the Great; the town preserves the ruins of the Castello di Cairano.
📅 Every year, on 11 November
Monteforte Irpino celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November, in the church dedicated to him.
