Battipaglia is young by Italian standards — an independent municipality only since 1929, grown from a Bourbon farming colony — but its plain is ancient: the Sele valley, where the buffaloes graze that give one of Campania's most celebrated mozzarellas. The dairies welcome visitors, and a still-warm bocconcino is an experience of its own.
The small medieval castle looks down on a hardworking town, the farming and industrial hub of the Salerno plain. Position is strategic: Paestum's temples fifteen minutes away, the Amalfi Coast and Cilento thirty.
Near Battipaglia
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