Cassano Irpino

Between the Calore river and the Picentini Mountains that give life to an extraordinary spring heritage, Cassano Irpino is the gateway to the waters that quench the thirst of Southern Italy Overlooking the Calore valley and protected by the Picentini mountain range, the village of Cassano Irpino has very ancient origins even if its current development is due to the medieval period of which the castle is an important testimony which, built in the Lombard period, today presents a clearly Norman read more

Between the Calore river and the Picentini Mountains that give life to an extraordinary spring heritage, Cassano Irpino is the gateway to the waters that quench the thirst of Southern Italy Overlooking the Calore valley and protected by the Picentini mountain range, the village of Cassano Irpino has very ancient origins even if its current development is due to the medieval period of which the castle is an important testimony which, built in the Lombard period, today presents a clearly Norman structure that over the centuries has led it to transform itself into a well-preserved noble residence. The current structure gravitates around the watchtower where there are completely renovated rooms and from here the entire medieval historic center of Cassano opens up. The catchment area of ​​the Picentini mountains forges the extraordinary spring heritage composed of the Pollentina, the Peschiera, the Acqua del Prete and the Bagno della Regina and which feeds, from Cassano Irpino, the Alto Calore Aqueduct and above all the Pugliese one to drink to millions of people. The Cassano plant has been the subject of numerous hydraulic interventions that have strengthened its value both in terms of water purity and architectural beauty thanks to the suggestive domed roofs. With a flow rate of over 1800 liters per second, conveyed through the 17-kilometer-long Valico Tunnel, the springs represent a priceless heritage for the whole of Southern Italy and the most wonderful visiting card of Irpinia that already in the times of Silla and of the Romans it was considered Felix because of the richness of water and the fertility of the pastures. read less