Green capital of the Irpinia hills, Avellino is a city rebuilt many times — the 1980 earthquake is the wound that redrew its face — and so it tells itself best in details: the seventeenth-century clock tower, the cathedral on the old town's hill, the elegant corso of the evening stroll.
Its strength lies around it: the Montevergine sanctuary, reached by Europe's steepest funicular, the vineyards of Taurasi, Fiano and Greco — three DOCG wines in a single province — and woods of chestnuts and hazelnuts. Irpinia is a slow discovery, and Avellino its doorway.
Near Avellino
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
