1. CILENTO: ART AND CULTURE
Geolocation
State: Italy
Region: Campania
Province: Salerno

2. PAESTUM
Founded by the Greeks around the seventh century B.C. with the name of Poseidon, the city was later occupied by Lucanians until 273 BC, when Rome made it a thriving colony, giving it its current name.

3. ELEA/VELIA
Velia, from the Greek name Elea, was founded in the 6th Century B.C. What remains of the ancient city includes ‘Porta Area’, ‘Porta Marina’, Porta Rosa, the Hellenistic and Roman Thermal Baths, the Agora, the Acropolis, the South Quarter and the Archaic Quarter. For these reasons Velia is a UNESCO HERITAGE SITE

4. CERTOSA OF PADULA
The Certosa of Padula is the most famous and the biggest one in Italy. Founded as far back as 1306, this monastery boasts the largest cloister in the world (circa 129,167 ft²) and is circumscribed by 84 columns. Its main section occupies a surface area of 554,341 ft² and consists of more than 320 rooms. Today the Certosa hosts the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Western Lucania, exhibiting items found in the archeological excavations of Sala Consilina and Padula’s necropolises.

5. SANSEVERINO’S CASTLE
It was built in Norman times and followed the process of fortification of the ancient settlements in acts throughout Europe . Teggiano Castle is among the most important in southern Italy.

6. CATHEDRAL OF TEGGIANO
Santa Maria Maggiore dates from the second half of the thirteenth century. It boasts four graves such as the one of Enrico Sanseverino, a wooden crucifix dates from 1400 and the Statue of San Cono from Teggiano by the famous artist Domenico Di Venuta (1714).
SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE CATHEDRAL

7. MUSEO DIOCESANO TEGGIANO
The diocesan museum of Teggiano is located in the former church of St. Peter and hosts a lot of archaeological finds from various eras.
The foundations of former religious building rests on the ruins of the ancient temple dedicated to the god of medicine Aesculapius.
This miseum boasts two important graves too.
A ROOM OF THE MUSEO DIOCESANO
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