Santa Paolina

Between the valleys of Calore and Sabato, Santa Paolina with its districts is the place of artistic craftsmanship linked to tombolo and Greco di Tufo DOCG Located over 500 meters above sea level and just 21 kilometers from Avellino, Santa Paolina is a pretty village that has always linked its name to the elaborate craftsmanship starting from the late Neolithic as evidenced by the findings of fragments of a large furnace powered by numerous watercourses that bathe the territory and give rise t read more

Between the valleys of Calore and Sabato, Santa Paolina with its districts is the place of artistic craftsmanship linked to tombolo and Greco di Tufo DOCG Located over 500 meters above sea level and just 21 kilometers from Avellino, Santa Paolina is a pretty village that has always linked its name to the elaborate craftsmanship starting from the late Neolithic as evidenced by the findings of fragments of a large furnace powered by numerous watercourses that bathe the territory and give rise to the rural districts where the precious vines of Greco di Tufo and Aglianico arise. The economy, since ancient times, was based on ceramics and agriculture, but it is the processing of the Tombolo, performed exclusively by women belonging to the poorest social classes, that makes Santa Paolina famous throughout Southern Italy. It is a form of artistic craftsmanship that is still practiced today to embellish clothes or furnishing elements, and which in the past was used exclusively for the brides' trousseau and in sacred vestments, which takes its name from the cushion on which the individual threads are arranged wrapped in bobbins which can vary from a few units up to 80 depending on the complexity of the work. read less