Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saint Peter
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Cuccaro Vetere, a municipality of 580 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patron Saint Peter.
The name Cuccaro Vetere comes from the Greek cocheros, meaning hilltop, and describes exactly where the village stands: on the summit, commanding the valleys that fall away towards Palinuro. That position made it for centuries a military place rather than a farming one: first a stronghold defending Velia, then a Norman bastion, where a castle and walls were built after Frederick II made the village one of his fiefs.
But Cuccaro was also a place of monks. Here stood the Byzantine monastery of San Nicola di Mira, a mark of that Greek presence which left names and cults throughout the Cilento; and from 1333 the Franciscans settled here, and of their monastery imposing ruins still remain. Of the castle the towers can be seen, and among the churches of the village is the eighteenth-century San Pietro Apostolo, which keeps a relic of the Cross.
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chiesa di Madonna di Campagna 📍 Verona · 14 km Sanmicheli's church built around a fresco that escaped demolition. Arena di Verona 📍 Verona · 18 km Four arches still standing after the 1117 earthquake, and opera on Roman steps since 1913. Casa di Giulietta 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's most visited monument is a medieval tower house famously transformed into a shrine to Shakespeare's Juliet. Piazza delle Erbe 📍 Verona · 17 km The Roman forum turned marketplace: towers, frescoed palaces and a fountain from 1368. ponte Pietra 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's Roman bridge, blown up in 1945 and rebuilt with the stones fished out of the Adige. Porta Vescovo 📍 Verona · 16 km Scaliger gate from 1287-1289, rebuilt by Venice in 1520 and later reshaped by the Austrians.