A land of truffles and cheeses that flavor one of the most evocative foothills in Italy, Bagnoli is the gateway to the Picentini Mountains
Inhabited since the year 1000 BC by the Samnites who had taken refuge in the Irpinia area, Bagnoli had its first major development during the Lombard domination first and the Norman domination immediately after, but it is with the Cavaniglia family in the fifteenth century that the village became autonomous with respect in Montella and famous for craftsman read more
A land of truffles and cheeses that flavor one of the most evocative foothills in Italy, Bagnoli is the gateway to the Picentini Mountains
Inhabited since the year 1000 BC by the Samnites who had taken refuge in the Irpinia area, Bagnoli had its first major development during the Lombard domination first and the Norman domination immediately after, but it is with the Cavaniglia family in the fifteenth century that the village became autonomous with respect in Montella and famous for craftsmanship, agriculture and the arts. The many churches and palaces that support and embellish the entire Piedmont area of Bagnoli testify to a glorious past rich in history and culture. The Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta, for example, dating back to around 900, is a small Latin cross jewel of the Lombard age whose wooden choir with admirable artistic carvings with scenes from the Old and New Testament has been declared a National Monument. The monumental complex of San Domenico,
instead, it is a composite construction, with a church built in the fifteenth century, a student house built in the seventeenth century at the behest of father Ambrogio Salvio, confessor of the emperor Charles V in which there are works by Marco dal Pino of Siena and a bell tower 30 meters high that stands out over the whole village.
The most famous lay building in Bagnoli is Palazzo Tenta. Built to house the notable artisans of the silkworm in the sixteenth century, who in this place performed the dyeing of the processed fabrics, hence the name Tenta, over the centuries it has also hosted the Town Hall. Today it is the seat of the municipal art gallery where there are works by Michele Lenzi and Achille Martelli. The historic center, as a whole, is Bagnoli's flagship. From the unmistakable nineteenth-century layout with the typical steep and narrow cobbled streets, it develops around the original nucleus of Giudecca, a clearly Jewish neighborhood built between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. read less
