Avellino

The history of Avellino, a town in the Campania region, has its origins in the ancient Abellinum. The latter stood near Atripalda, conquered by Rome during the Samnite wars and became (in 82 BC) chief town of the Veneria Abellinatium colony.

The present town was founded by the Lombards and began its modern development in the seventeenth century, extending its municipality westward - towards Naples – and almost joining Atripalda.

After the Lombard domination, Avellino was under the rule of the Byzantines, Normans, Swabians, Angevin, Aragonese, the Viceroy of Spain, the Austrians and the Bourbons. Capital of the province since 1799, Avellino actively participated in the riots of 1820.

Avellino, repeatedly destroyed by earthquakes that have devastated its area over the centuries, hasn't really got important historical monuments. Among the few stands the Cathedral, dedicated to the Madonna dell 'Assunta built in the twelfth century and rebuilt several times, with a neoclassical facade of Pasquale Cardoli rebuilt in 1891, frescoes and wooden choir of the XVI century, and its museum, definitely worth a visit.

Remarkable the seventeenth-century fountain of Constantinople as well as the one dedicated to St Anthony Abbot, also Baroque and the eighteenth-century building in Piazza Caracciolo of Liberty, recently completely renovated and used as the Palace of the Provincial Administration.

Quite important is the provincial library that owns more than 150 thousand volumes. Close to the central Corso Vittorio Emanuele, stands the rebuilt De Peruta Palace, for over a century, the town hall of the city of Avellino.

Just a few ruins remains of the medieval castle together with the Casina del Principe. An interesting testimony of the past is also the Bourbon Prison, located in the centre of Avellino, just a few meters from the Court. Today it houses the Pinacoteca Provinciale. Since few years the city of Avellino has also its Municipal Theater: The Carlo Gesualdo.

Avellino's patron saint is St Modestino.

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