Castello Cavaniglia e Palazzo Tenta
Bagnoli Irpino (AV)
Hidden gemCastles
The story
The stronghold of the Cavaniglia, lords of black truffle and beech forests, and beside it the palazzo that today is the memory house of Bagnoli.
Access
Exteriors free; interiors depending on events
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- Sacred art
Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta (Bagnoli)
Bagnoli Irpino (AV)
The wooden choir carved by Giovan Battista Ferrari is a forest of sculpted timber, a Baroque masterpiece hidden in a mountain village almost no tourist ever reaches.
- Nature & hiking
Grotta del Caliendo
Bagnoli Irpino (AV)
The stream goes into the mountain and carves a world inside it: sumps, underground waterfalls and galleries where the water has been at work for millions of years. One of the most important caves in the Picentini.
- Sacred art
Grotta di San Guglielmo
Bagnoli Irpino (AV)
Here, they say, Guglielmo da Vercelli withdrew to pray before founding Montevergine and the Goleto: a cleft in the rock, and a man who spoke with God.
HikingMonte Cervialto
Bagnoli Irpino (AV)
The highest peak of the Picentini, 1,809 metres: on a clear day you see the Tyrrhenian and the Lucanian Apennines together. Inside the mountain, the water that quenches Puglia.
More gems: Castles
- Castles
Palazzo Sansevero
P.za San Domenico Maggiore
On the corner of piazza San Domenico the palace of the princes of Sangro still carries the echo of the night when Gesualdo surprised and killed Maria d'Avalos and her lover.
CastlesCastel Capuano
zona Garibaldi
An old Norman castle that for four centuries served as the courthouse of Naples: here justice held session in frescoed halls, in the shadow of nearby Porta Capuana.
CastlesPalazzo Donn'Anna
Posillipo
The unfinished seventeenth-century palace juts sheer over the water, dark and labyrinthine: through its empty rooms legend has the shadow of Donn'Anna still wandering.
CastlesCasina Vanvitelliana
Lago Fusaro, Bacoli
An octagonal pavilion that seems to float on Lago Fusaro, a Bourbon hunting lodge reached by a little bridge, among reflections and morning mists.
CastlesVilla Lysis (Fersen)
Capri
Built in 1905 by the poet Fersen and dedicated to love and to sorrow, an Art Nouveau villa among the pines, with a Latin inscription at the entrance and the opium room hidden below.
CastlesPalazzo d'Avalos (ex carcere)
Terra Murata
First the palace of the d'Avalos family, then a prison until the late twentieth century: the empty cells command Terra Murata, suspended between the memory of the inmates and the silence that lives there now.