Ponterotto

Also called "Ponte Appiano", it was built by the Romans to reach Puglia and then embark towards the East: it represents a beauty of exceptional historical value, in an area that was the scene of many battles

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Ponterotto, also called "Ponte Appiano", is a place of historical interest, located in the locality of the same name in the municipality of Venticano. Located in an area halfway between the provinces of Avellino and Benevento, it is an ancient structure dating back to the Trajan age. It was built to reach Puglia, a land of landing for the famous conquests in the East. Not only the theater of the battles of ancient Rome, Ponterotto is also a site immersed in the green Irpinia and shrouded in m read more

Ponterotto, also called "Ponte Appiano", is a place of historical interest, located in the locality of the same name in the municipality of Venticano. Located in an area halfway between the provinces of Avellino and Benevento, it is an ancient structure dating back to the Trajan age. It was built to reach Puglia, a land of landing for the famous conquests in the East. Not only the theater of the battles of ancient Rome, Ponterotto is also a site immersed in the green Irpinia and shrouded in mystery, over which legends and intriguing narratives hover. For some it is the "Devil's Bridge", because, on an arch, an eye and a hand belonging to an evil being would be evident; for others, it becomes a metaphor for a place in which to find refuge from illusions, or rather a nocturnal scenario where to meet the "Millennial Serpent", which would hide among the stones and brambles of the river and which embodies, in fact, the illusion and the human need to sweeten the reality. Ponterotto has an immeasurable historical and representative value, not only for Venticano: it rises between the municipalities of Bonito, Mirabella Eclano, Apice, Calvi and San Giorgio del Sannio and, for all the communities of the aforementioned towns, represents the testimony of a glorious past . The site of historical interest, today, shows only the ruins of the then imposing architectural structure bathed by the Calore river: the arch remains intact and clearly visible, flanked by seven corroded pylons, three in the water and four on the ground, which nonetheless have withstood the wear and tear of time gone by. Next to one of them, a Latin epigraph was found, attributable to the Samnite context and connected to the Mercurials. In this place, history and myth intertwine, giving Ponterotto, still today, a unique and suggestive charm. read less