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Hermitage · Campagna (SA)

Hermitage of St Michael the Archangel in Campagna

  • Visit: about 30 min
  • 438 m
Pictured: Campagna · Gianfranco Vitolo · CC BY 2.0 · resized and cropped

Small hermitage carved into a high cliff of Montenero, at about a thousand metres in the Picentini Mountains, overlooking the Trigento valley.

The hermitage of St Michael the Archangel lies on Montenero, at about a thousand metres above sea level in the Picentini Mountains. Probably dating from the 16th century, it was a small Benedictine community set into the hollow of a towering cliff, overlooking the Trigento valley. It can be reached on foot from Avigliano or, by a longer mule track, from the hamlet of Puglietta.In the little church there is a 16th-century tomb with a rare coat of arms depicting a bramble, and three small rooms, an oratory and a kitchen are carved into the rock. The hermitage was restored and enlarged from 1630; in 1748 a stone cross and the sixty-step staircase were added. Inside some panels of the 1672 Stations of the Cross remain. We recommend the climb on clear days.

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