It is the least populous comune in Campania, in the upper valley of the Calore, in the Cilento. It is thought to have been founded in the tenth century by Basilian monks; it was called Casaletto di Piaggine, and its people still call themselves casalettari. It was a hamlet of Laurino until 1873, when it became a comune under the name of Piaggine Sottane.
The present name comes from a cave: the grotto of Saint Michael the Archangel, which holds a statue of the archangel in a defensive stance. In the village there are two seventeenth-century churches and two palaces, and just outside the spring of the Festolaro; in the coat of arms a tree stands between two facing lions.
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📅 On 19 February and 31 July
On 19 February and 31 July Valle dell'Angelo, a municipality of 280 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patron Saint Barbatus; the Grava di Vesalo lies in its territory.
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