Sarno names the river that rises here, from karst springs at the foot of Mount Saro: waters that irrigate Campania's most fertile plain and for centuries drove mills and works. The Lombard castle overlooks the town, a former bishopric that keeps its cathedral with crypt and confraternity churches.
The landslide of May 1998 remains a wound in collective memory, honoured with composure; the town rebuilt facing forward, between the river park and tomato fields. Down the valley, the excavations of Pompeii are fifteen minutes away: Sarno is the Campania that works and remembers.
Near Sarno
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
