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Ceraso


The municipal territory of Ceraso, partly mountainous and hilly and consists of town and four villages within the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano and the Mountain Community Gelbison and deer. Alongside the ancient olive groves that characterize the territory from which you get a valuable oil of excellent quality, where today there are forests of alder, beech, chestnut and Mediterranean vegetation, once there was a lot of cherry trees ( Cerarsus in Latin) from which some scholars believe the town derives its current name.


The place where there is significant geographical importance Ceraso, along the ancient "Via del Sale" Veline routes linking the Ionian coast, is instead assumed that the modern name of the site, derived from the greek word Cherànnumi (link), meaning Ceraso precisely as an ideal point of junction on the road between the sea and the interior of the region.

Ceraso bases its economy on oil production, wine, chestnuts and fruits in season, but the beauty of nature around him, the views offered by alleys that branch out radially from the main square and around the church of St. Nicholas of Bari , old town core, together with the growing range of accommodation, with the opening of cottages, bed and breakfasts, make Ceraso a tourist destination for much enlivened by a calendar of folklore and gastronomic very rich and interesting. During the summer, are held in villages in and Ceraso fairs and festivals, such as the Olive Oil Festival "promoting the core product of the Mediterranean diet with musical events and tasting of traditional food Cilento.


Around Ceraso

In the hilly territories around Ceraso, along the river called Palistro, and the ancient streets Veline and salt, are the four villages. Starting from the capital, in less than three kilometers to the south meets Santa Barbara, the most populous locality, existing as a church in 977 and the monastery of Greek monks, from Velia since 1055. Here, in the first days of August, there is the "Festa dei Rioni", a show dedicated to the rural world and ancient crafts, developed along a path traveling between the districts of the town gates and the discovery of ancient palaces and tasting of products Typical. Massascusa, less than two kilometers east of the capital, is considered the first town in the area. It seems that after the destruction of Velia, groups of refugees fled here. In the early '900, however, employment at the factory tanning extracts, led by Antonio and Giovanni Ravera, put that brake emigration depopulated the Cilento.

Less than a mile from here is San Biase, only town of the municipality to be over a thousand years of documented life is a parchment of 993 leading back to the foundation. His story, however, that around the year 732 Armenian families came here during their journey to Rome with the mortal remains of St. Biagio who is dedicated to the church that houses paintings of great artistic significance dating back to the fourteenth century.

Petrosa, with Metoio, is the last resort, in time, a fraction with a high decree of President of the Republic, dating back to 1959, exactly 40 years after the reclamation of land on which now stands Petrosa, once belonged to the badia di Pattano.


Calendar Festivals, Festivals and Events in the town of Ceraso

BROOM FESTIVAL • June to Massascusa

TOP LITERARY PRIZE • in July Ceraso

MADONNA DEL CARMINE • Mid July to Petrosa

FESTIVAL PARK • Beginning in July Massascusa

FESTIVAL OF RION • Early August in Santa Barbara

EMIGRANT DAY • August in Santa Barbara

RIVER FESTIVAL • August in Ceraso

FESTIVAL OF LAKE • August to Petrosa

THOUGHTS, MEMORIES ... FLAVOURS around ULIVI • August to Metoio

GAMES IN PIAZZA • August in Santa Barbara

MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL • August to Massascusa

BREAD FESTIVAL • August in San Biase

FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION • on August 15 to Ceraso

CELLARS OPEN in Ceraso • December in Ceraso
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