Among sun-kissed vines, baronial palaces, churches that trace the history of Italian architecture and works of railway engineering of exquisite workmanship, Lapio is one of the renowned villages of the Fiano di Avellino and Taurasi area
The village owes its name to the Fiano wine, an excellent product of the agricultural area '' Apia '', from which the term '' Apiano '' and '' Apiana '' the grape sung by Latin poets derive, but the origins of he current urban settlement dates back to the Lomb read more
Among sun-kissed vines, baronial palaces, churches that trace the history of Italian architecture and works of railway engineering of exquisite workmanship, Lapio is one of the renowned villages of the Fiano di Avellino and Taurasi area
The village owes its name to the Fiano wine, an excellent product of the agricultural area '' Apia '', from which the term '' Apiano '' and '' Apiana '' the grape sung by Latin poets derive, but the origins of he current urban settlement dates back to the Lombard period. The fiefdom then became the property of the powerful family of the Financiers of Naples who established their summer residence in Lapio as evidenced by the presence of the baronial palace built according to the norms of Norman architecture between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and in which they are still preserved. today admirable frescoes
Another work of extraordinary historical interest is the Ponte di Principe, better known as the Iron Bridge. Built in 1893 by the Italian industrial society of metal constructions of Castellammare di Stabia, with the same workers who erected the Eiffel Tower in Paris, to connect Lapio with Taurasi on the other side of the Calore River, the bridge has been crossed since 1895 by wagons of the Avellino-Rocchetta railway line, today a tourist train in Irpinia. Among the oldest and most evocative religious traditions of Irpinia, the Mysteries of Lapio, emphasize the cultural and artistic heritage of the village which in the Easter period commemorates the crucifixion of Christ through life-size papier-mâché statues depicting scenes from the Passion. read less
