The white artichoke is Montoro's flag: naturally pale and tender enough to eat raw, it grows almost nowhere but this valley below the Picentini mountains and is feted each spring with a festival drawing food lovers from across Campania. Around it, the Irno valley stitches Avellino to Salerno with a string of industrious hamlets.
The municipality of 19,456 is among Italy's youngest by birth certificate: it has existed since 2013, when Montoro Inferiore and Montoro Superiore reunited what a Bourbon decree had split in 1820. The sixteenth-century collegiate churches of the two halves recall that history here has always run double.
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Next up: Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, patron of the town of the two sanctuaries, Friday 10 September
Nearest airport: Napoli Capodichino, 40 km away
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📅 Every year, on 10 September
Montoro celebrates Saint Nicholas of Tolentino on 10 September; the municipal territory also holds the Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Sanctuary of Saint Pantaleon.
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