Medioevo Experiences: The Sanseverino Paths
Padula / Teggiano / Cava Itinerary - Group  min. 25 pax

A magnificent journey into the Campania Middle Ages to discover the locations that made the history of southern Italy under the powerful Sanseverino family. 

The tour will take us to the Certosa di San Lorenzo in Padula, spread over an area of ​​51,500 m², arranged over three cloisters, a garden, a courtyard and a church, it is one of the most sumptuous Baroque monumental complexes in southern Italy, as well as the largest Charterhouse nationally and among the largest in Europe. Since 1957 it has housed the provincial archaeological museum of western Lucania; in 1998 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO together with the nearby archaeological sites of Velia, Paestum, Vallo di Diano and the Cilento National Park. The works on the Charterhouse began at the behest of Tommaso II Sanseverino, on April 17 of the same year, then, King Charles II the Lame confirmed its foundation.
 

The next stop will be Teggiano whose historic center is recognized by Ficlu as a UNESCO Club. The entire city and the Diano valley are part of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The maximum splendor was reached in the period in which the noble Sanseverino family designated it as a privileged place. With the arrival of the Normans, a large number of Norman warrior families settled there, the village has a strong military vocation. In 1485 the famous Conspiracy of the Barons was plotted within the walls of his castle, hatched by Antonello Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, against Ferrante 1st of Aragon, King of Naples.
 

The last stop of the tour is the City of Cava de 'Tirreni with the Abbey founded in 1011. The Abbot San Pietro I (1079-1123) founded and built in the 11th century the village of Corpo di Cava, protected by high walls and ramparts; in practice the first modern settlement of the city of Cava. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the Borgo Scacciaventi developed, a valuable example of a commercial center, characterized by a street flanked by arcades and by historic porticoed buildings. A street of "perfect regularity", as Eduardo Gauthier Du Lys D'Arc wrote in his "Voyage de Naples á Amalfi" (Paris 1829).

Departures from: Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome. On the other locations quotations to be checked