Patron saint festival In 304 days
Feast of Santa Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 15 August
On 15 August Giungano, a municipality of 1,249 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary).
Giungano was born of a flight: when the plain of Paestum turned to marsh and the Saracen raids began, the people climbed onto this rock. The village lies in an arc above the plain, and its oldest church, Sant'Agnello Abate, has a Benedictine cemetery beside it: they are of the twelfth century. In the centre the family palaces remain, from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth.
From the village starts the Bride's path, which is the old way between Paestum and the upper Cilento: it climbs among oaks and cork oaks up to Trentinara. The name comes from a story they still tell here: Isabella, of Giungano, and Saul, a brigand of Trentinara, could not be together, and threw themselves off the cliff.
The Giungano guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Giungano 1
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🍝 The flavours of Giungano
Carciofo di Paestum large round artichoke, grown in the Sele plain
A large, round artichoke head, the Romanesco type: Carciofo di Paestum, grown in the Sele plain since the 1920s, has held IGP status since 2004.
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