Bandiera Arancione
Bandiera Arancione in Campania
5 towns
Campania carries 5 of the Bandiera Arancione towns we cover. They cluster in the Benevento, Avellino, and Caserta provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Cerreto Sannita, Sant'Agata de' Goti, and Zungoli. 2 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Cerreto Sannita
Province: Benevento · 290 m
A Sannio ceramics town at 290 meters, rebuilt from scratch by royal engineer Giovanni Battista Manni after the 1688 earthquake leveled the old hill.
Sant'Agata de' Goti
Province: Benevento · 156 m
A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.
Zungoli
Province: Avellino · 657 m
An Irpinia ridge at 657 meters between the Ufita valley and the Daunian hills, with Norman walls above and Byzantine tuff caves below the houses.
Morigerati
Province: Salerno · 340 m
A 608-person Cilento village above the Bussento gorge, the river surfacing from underground caves directly beneath the cliffs.
Letino
Province: Caserta · 961 m
At 961 meters the highest commune in the province of Caserta, where in April 1877 anarchists declared a Republic of Letino in the village hall.
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Pistoia
Province: Pistoia
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Tropea
Province: Vibo Valentia
Cliff town on a tufa headland over the Tyrrhenian Coast of the Gods, with a Norman monastery on a sea rock.
Caldes
Province: Trento
A scattered Val di Sole commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Cantiano
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A border borgo at 374 meters under Monte Catria on the old Via Flaminia, known for the Good Friday Turba and the sour-cherry visciola harvest.