Patron saint festival In 260 days
Feast of Santa Maria delle Grazie
📅 Every year, on 2 July
On 2 July Lustra, a municipality of 1,100 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria delle Grazie (Our Lady of Graces).
In the frazione of Rocca Cilento stands a castle that for four centuries was the seat of command of the whole Cilento: in 1110 Guglielmo Sanseverino moved the seat of the barony there, from the top of monte Stella, and from that hill the Sanseverino held justice and administration until 1552, when the emperor took it from them for Ferrante's rebellion.
In 1861 Rocca Cilento became a frazione of Lustra: the capital of a barony ended up inside a comune of a thousand people. The castle was restored in the nineteen-sixties by Ruggero Moscati. Lustra itself looked to Torchiara for a century and a half, first in the Bourbon circondario and then in the mandamento of the kingdom of Italy.
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tomba del Tuffatore 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 14 km The only Greek painting of the classical age to survive: a man diving into space. Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Three names and a single ending: the Greek city that the water slowly ate. Temples of Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 19 km Three Doric temples standing since the sixth century BCE, and the Tomb of the Diver. Museo archeologico nazionale di Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The temples' museum, with the Tomb of the Diver and the metopes of Hera's sanctuary. Tempio di Nettuno 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The almost complete Doric temple, whose only wrong part is Neptune's name. Tempio di Atena 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Paestum's most refined temple, used as a church in the middle ages.