Montoro

Formed by hamlets rich in history and charm and wrapped in persistent and unmistakable flavors, the city of Montoro develops on the slopes of Pizzo San Michele halfway between Avellino and Salerno In the heart of the Irno Valley, the area where the city of Montoro stands today has been inhabited since the Mesolithic era, as documented by the findings found in a cave in the locality of Aterrana. Here, on the first hairpin bends that lead to Pizzo di San Michele, there is a village of pre-Roman read more

Formed by hamlets rich in history and charm and wrapped in persistent and unmistakable flavors, the city of Montoro develops on the slopes of Pizzo San Michele halfway between Avellino and Salerno In the heart of the Irno Valley, the area where the city of Montoro stands today has been inhabited since the Mesolithic era, as documented by the findings found in a cave in the locality of Aterrana. Here, on the first hairpin bends that lead to Pizzo di San Michele, there is a village of pre-Roman origins that time has spared. Located in the fertile Montoro valley on the slopes of the Taurina chain, Aterrana represents a happy combination of history, culture, local traditions and the amenity of a landscape that is declined in cobbled alleys, stone houses, wells, fountains and suggestive corners that tell of a peasant civilization that has always inhabited the village. Reaching the hamlet of Misciano, however, you come across Palazzo Macchiarelli, a tuff construction dating back to the sixteenth century in which there are significant testimonies of the economic power of the noble families that have alternated in Montoro such as that of the Pironti. A tribute to the Montoro peasant civilization is the Museum located in an old rural building typical of the early twentieth century which is spread over several levels consisting of a basement, a ground floor and a first floor, with its attic for over 2000 square meters of exhibition space. . Montoro is the place of intense and enveloping flavors which, thanks to quality products, has made the city famous throughout Italy. Just think of the copper onion, with the typical color of the outer tunic of the bulb particularly appreciated on the national and foreign market thanks to its sweet flavor and intense and aromatic taste, the artichoke grown near two springs and protected from the damaging action of frost thanks to a typical terracotta cup that is placed on the so-called flower heads and the Banzanese potato with which strangoli, typical gnocchi made with flour, water and potatoes, are mixed. read less