Teggiano is sure one of the historical centers more important of the Salerno Area. Situated on a hill, the little city have numerous rest of its past .Archeological investigation show settlement that date back from the fourth century BC; in Roman times the city became Municipium with the name of Tegianum. It was destoyed in 410 BC by Alarico; it took the name of Dianum from which the Valley of Diano derives its name.
To visit: The Castle, the churces of St.Antuono, Saint Martin, S.Andrew, St.Angel, The Convents of the SS.Pietà of Saint Agostine, of Saint Frances, The Cathedral of S.Maria Maggiore, The Diocesan Museum, The Museum of peasant civilisation, The Roman bridge in the S.Mark district.
The national Park of the Cilento and vallo di Diano has been institution in 1991 he understands an area of southern Italy, situated in province of Salerno, that is extended by the coast of Tyrrhenian sea the Appennino, for around 2400 km2s; the Cervati mountain includes that, with his 1898 m, is the maximum peak of the region and the Alburnums mountains. Its characteristic sea has given origin to a jagged coast, long expanses of sand they are alternated to fabulous precipices. The coast band picks up the history since the Greek epoch, the passage of these civilizations today youe can be lived still and to touch with the hands. Important human installations, are testimony the archaeological areas of Paestum and Velia. As Humerus's narrations you cannot be remembered that quoted the coast of the gulf of Policastro in his " Odyssey ". In the zone inside they there was room for the human installations, since the marshy plain of the Sele (only in the XIX century) it pushed to the colonization of the band appenninica. Characterized by sour reliefs, he/she offers a naturalistic panorama of great interest, we quote the caves of Pertosa, Castelcivita, the river Heat where we can also find exemplary of otters.
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