Città della Nocciola
Città della Nocciola in Campania
8 towns
Campania has 8 Città della Nocciola communes in our index. They cluster in the Avellino, Benevento, and Napoli provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Lapio, Montesarchio, and Pompei. 5 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Lapio
Province: Avellino · 590 m
An 1,428-resident Irpinia hilltop borgo at 590m in the hills east of Avellino, recognised by a rare four-signal combination (Città del Vino + Olio + Miele + Nocciola) for the whole local agricultural ecosystem.
Montesarchio
Province: Benevento · 300 m
Ancient Caudium at 300 meters, a Roman defeat still attached to the name two thousand years later.
Pompei
Province: Napoli · 30 m
The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.
Sant'Agata de' Goti
Province: Benevento · 156 m
A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.
Summonte
Province: Avellino · 738 m
An Irpinia hill village at 738 meters on the slope of the Partenio massif, built around a 16-meter Angevin cylinder tower.
Mercogliano
Province: Avellino · 550 m
A 550-meter Irpinia town on the slope of Partenio, gateway to the Montevergine Sanctuary 1,270 meters above.
Nola
Province: Napoli · 34 m
The Campanian plain town where Augustus died in AD 14 and Giordano Bruno was born in 1548, famous for the June Festa dei Gigli.
Vairano Patenora
Province: Caserta · 168 m
A roofless Aragonese castle with four round towers stands over a walled stone borgo in the Volturno valley, on the road that carried emperors and popes between Rome and Naples.
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Five more towns to discover
Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.