Patron saint festival In 95 days
Saint Anthony the Abbot, patron of the Path of the Gods
📅 Every year, on 17 January
Agerola celebrates Saint Anthony the Abbot on 17 January.
The Lattari mountains owe their name to milk, and it was doctors who made it famous: Galen, physician to Marcus Aurelius, praised its healing properties, and in the sixth century Cassiodorus records that the king of the Goths, finding his doctors of no use, was sent to the remedia lactarii montis. Agerola sits up there, in a hollow six hundred metres up, and for centuries belonged to the duchy of Amalfi.
It was one man who detached it from Amalfi: general Paolo Avitabile, who had made his fortune serving first the Bourbons and then the maharaja of Lahore, and in 1844 obtained the village's transfer from the province of Salerno to that of Naples. Only the church kept it tied to Amalfi. At Campora, meanwhile, stands a lime tree: planted for the Republic of 1799 and replanted ever since.
The Agerola guide
What to see 1
Path of the Gods
What to eat here 2
Pizza Napoletana · Caprese
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Events & festivals 1
Next up: Saint Anthony the Abbot, patron of the Path of the Gods, Sunday 17 January
Getting there
Nearest airport: Napoli Capodichino, 35 km away
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Near Agerola
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Agerola, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.