Altavilla Silentina
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Altavilla Silentina is a town of the Province of Salerno, in the Campania Region, just 70 miles south of Naples. Its population reaches 6,725 persons. It is located on a hill 900 feet above sea level and it is shielded on the eastern side by the Monte Alburno (5100 ft) and the plain of the Sele River and the Tyrrhenian Sea at West. The panorama includes the island of Capri, the mountains of the Amalfi Coast and the Gulf of Salerno in its northern part. The river Calore Salernitano touches much of its western boundaries.
The territory of Altavilla was populated since the 7th century BCE as demonstrasted by a vase of that era has been found in some ruins. About the territory of the town can be located also the place where Spartacus and its 60,000 slaves rebelled to Rome were definitely defeated by Roman general Pompey in 71 BCE.
The town as it is located now was built by Normans in the second half of XI century by Robert the Guiscard.
[edit] External links
- Altavilla Silentina Official site (Italian)
- Postcards from Altavilla Silentina
- St. Anthony feast: pictures and program
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