Altavilla Irpina
2 places
- Museums
MuGesS — Museo della Gente Senza Storia (miniera di zolfo)
Altavilla Irpina (AV)
For a century thousands of men went down into the sulphur mine discovered in 1866: yellow dust in the lungs, silicosis, and a wealth that was never theirs. The museum gives a name back to those history never wrote down.
- Nature & hiking
Stretto di Barba e le Coste Janare
Altavilla Irpina (AV)
The famous Noce di Benevento, the walnut tree where the janare (Benevento witches) gathered, was not in Benevento at all, according to many scholars: it was here, in this steep gorge above the Sabato, whose banks are still called Coste Janare. Even today, in Irpinia, salt is laid across the doorstep.