Patron saint festival In 284 days
Saint Pantaleon, patron of the Cilento cathedral
📅 Every year, on 27 July
Vallo della Lucania celebrates Saint Pantaleon on 27 July, in the cathedral dedicated to him.
The coat of arms of Vallo della Lucania is a sum: above, a heart clasped by two hands; below, a tower with its sentry. They are the two hamlets that formed the town, Cornuti and Spio, divided by a river once crossed by two bridges and now invisible, because it was covered over right in front of the town hall, beneath Piazza Vittorio Emanuele.
In the eighteenth century silk and leather made Vallo rich enough to come through even the grain famine of 1764 unharmed. Then the institutions arrived: the court in 1850, the diocese in 1851. The name, though, was simply Vallo: della Lucania was added in 1863, after Italian unification. Above the town rises Monte Gelbison, with the sanctuary that pilgrims from all over Cilento climb to.
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Near Vallo della Lucania
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Vallo della Lucania, but an easy day trip away.
Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.