Tortorella lies in the southern Cilento, some ten kilometres from the sea but without sight of it: the village is on a hill, in the middle of a large wooded area belonging to the national park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano. It has a single hamlet, Caselle, and borders on Basilicata, since one of the comuni it shares a boundary with, Rivello, is already in the province of Potenza. Administratively it was long tied to Vibonati: from 1811 within its district, and then within its mandamento until the early twentieth century.
What put this village of a few hundred people in the national papers, however, is recent, and has to do with rubbish: in 2011 Legambiente awarded it the title of Comune Riciclone, first comune in southern Italy under ten thousand inhabitants for separate waste collection. A record which, in a region where waste management has been a problem for years, is worth more than it may seem.
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📅 Every year, on 25 May, 15 June and the last Sunday of October
Tortorella, a municipality of 563 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patrons Saint Vitus, Saint Felix the Martyr and Saint Urban on 25 May, 15 June and the last Sunday of October.
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Outside Tortorella, but an easy day trip away.
