Avella

An extraordinary crossroads of art, history and culture, Avella holds timeless treasures that tell of a glorious past that has its roots in the Samnite-Roman age Pampered by one of the largest valleys of the Campania Apennines halfway between Irpinia and the metropolitan area of ​​Naples, crowned by the Partenio mountains and crossed by the Clanio river, Avella is the nerve center of Lower Irpinia and a place of greatest appeal from a tourist point of view thanks to its numerous archaeologica read more

An extraordinary crossroads of art, history and culture, Avella holds timeless treasures that tell of a glorious past that has its roots in the Samnite-Roman age Pampered by one of the largest valleys of the Campania Apennines halfway between Irpinia and the metropolitan area of ​​Naples, crowned by the Partenio mountains and crossed by the Clanio river, Avella is the nerve center of Lower Irpinia and a place of greatest appeal from a tourist point of view thanks to its numerous archaeological sites of regional significance. Avella reaches its maximum splendor in Roman times. An admirable testimony of this is the Amphitheater which represents the most important architectural work of the territory and among the oldest in Campania, with its 60 meters in length and 35 in width, built with the construction technique in opus reticolatum of the yellow type. like that of Pompeii. An open-air museum area where you can relive the glories of imperial Rome, also declined through the monumental Necropolis dating back to the first century BC with its valuable funeral mausoleums. All these emergencies are included in a technological installation created at the Baronial Alvarez De Toledo which give life to MIA, the immersed and archaeological museum of Avella, a multimedia path declined through projections and graphic signs, talking pictures and augmented reality stations. read less