Nusco

Thanks to a breathtaking view, able to range from Vulture to Partenio, from Taburno to Matese and up to Daunia, Nusco is considered the balcony of Irpinia and one of the most beautiful villages in Italy Rising on the Apennine hills that form the watershed between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, Nusco was already considered a "civitas" in the year 1000, most likely because it was a bishopric. It is no coincidence that the first bishop was Sant’Amato who later became the patron saint of the muni read more

Thanks to a breathtaking view, able to range from Vulture to Partenio, from Taburno to Matese and up to Daunia, Nusco is considered the balcony of Irpinia and one of the most beautiful villages in Italy Rising on the Apennine hills that form the watershed between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, Nusco was already considered a "civitas" in the year 1000, most likely because it was a bishopric. It is no coincidence that the first bishop was Sant’Amato who later became the patron saint of the municipality of Altirpino. The Concathedral Church dedicated to the saint, built starting from the 11th century, contains his mortal remains and is presented as one of the symbols around which the entire Nuschese community gathers. The building stands in the heart of Piazza del Vescovado with its majestic composite-style facade made unique by the large square blocks of local stone used for the construction. Its layout, modified over the centuries, now features an imposing clock tower built towards the end of the nineteenth century and a 33 meter high bell tower that stands out over the entire village. Inside you can admire the stations of the Via Crucis painted by the Cosentino artist Domenico Oranges in 1742, the elevated choir and the wooden pulpit from the 13th century and the throne of Saint Amato made by the Sicilian artist Filippo Pennino, again in the second half of the 18th. . But it is the Romanesque crypt that is the true great attraction of the Co-Cathedral. Here the remains and relics of the Patron Saint are preserved and in 2004, among its cavities, a fresco was found in which a very rare Virgin Mary is seen lying on a bed waiting to give birth and Saint Joseph beside her. Also in Piazza del Vescovado stands the Episcopio di Nusco, a bishopric inaugurated after 4 years of work in 1760 at the behest of his excellence Francesco Antonio Bonaventura. Over time, the structure has hosted a glorious diocesan seminary and a library with over 10,000 volumes in which the future bishops Giuseppe Teta and Felice Del Sordo, the deputy Felice Saponara and the Ministers Francesco Tedesco and Michelangelo Cianciulli received their education. Finally, next to the Episcopio, to close this monumental triptych there is the Diocesan Museum which contains evidence of the great historical, artistic and religious heritage of the seven communities that make up the Archdiocese of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco- Bisaccia. read less