Along the streets carefully paved with light stone from the nearby quarries, the discreet song of flowing water accompanies the journey.

From its panoramic position at 875 meters above sea level, overlooking the first stretch of the great Ofanto river and the Fredane stream, Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi dominates a large territory, thus justifying its historical role as the capital of Alta Irpinia.

The stone tower mutilated by time, still seems to guard, protective, over the hamlet that runs all around the sides of the hill ruling over the Ansanto valley.

Keeps the synthesis of its history in the name. A medieval town, built around a castle, the Castrum vetere, an ancient castle so: this is the genesis of Castelvetere, on the Calore (“of Calore“ until 1950) because the great irpinian river flows through the valley below Mount Tuoro, rising at 750 meters high on its slopes.

A small town. With its name linked forever to an ancient culture that can be traced to a historical emigration from the lands on the Adriatic to those found on the paths towards the Tyrrhenian.

Thou from the top of yonder antique tower… Leopardi's famous verses resonating in the mind in front of the natural spectacle presenting from the top of the Angevin tower in Summonte.

A small hilltop village with a favorable position. Not, for once, for its military needs, but for a thriving agriculture, which over the centuries had its strength in viticulture.

Montella is not only the heart of PGI chestnuts production bearing its name, recognised as Irpinia typical product. It is also a land of springs of water.

Roasted and shredded, they appeared as an ingredient in different recipes of the “De re coquinaria” of Apicius, the famous roman chef who lived between the 1^st  and the 2^nd century a.D and recommended the use of “nuts of Avella”, in other words the nuts.

E’ una testa di lupo, hirpus, l’elemento decorativo che caratterizza le ceramiche della necropoli di Piano Cerasulo. 

The “cart wheels” weigh six kilos, but the most common size is two kilos. Round loaves, of wheat and soft flour, risen with sourdough and baked in wood –fired oven : this is the bread which has made Calitri famous.The “cart wheels” weigh six kilos, but the most common size is two kilos. Round loaves, of wheat and soft flour, risen with sourdough and baked in wood –fired oven : this is the bread which has made Calitri famous.

I Grimaldi, Principi di Monaco, per oltre un secolo, dal 1532 al 1631, possedettero il feudo di Monteverde, l’antico Mons Viridis che già ne suo nome rappresenta la verde Irpinia.