Campora

Located on the top of a hill overlooking the Trenico valley, a tributary of the River Calore, the Municipality of Campora is characterized by the presence of a luxuriant nature, particularly beech and chestnut trees. The toponym, already testified in a document of the fourteenth century, refers to the Latin word "campus" and can mean both "plain place" and "agrarian surface".
In the past, due to its favorable geographical position, the town has played an important control role on the transit route that from Vallo della Lucania crossed these lands, and then continued on to the Vallo di Diano. Frequented and inhabited since prehistoric times, as evidenced by the numerous findings dating back to the Eneolithic age, the territory in which Campora stands was later equipped with a fortified tower: it was built by the inhabitants of ancient Velia, who wanted to ensure greater control on the road that led to the Vallo di Diano. However the formation of the actual inhabited center was had only around the X sec. when, following the continuous Saracen raids that ravaged the Tyrrhenian coast, the fleeing people found shelter in a Basilian monastery dedicated to San Giorgio.
From 1131 the fiefdom of Campora came into the hands of marquises, princes, barons and ecclesiastical bodies. In 1656 the inhabitants of Campora were struck by a plague epidemic, which decimated much of the population. Between the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s it was the turn of an agrarian crisis that forced many inhabitants to emigrate. Campora joined the patriotic revolts and saw its peasants occupy the owners' lands and react violently to the Bourbon regime. The figures of the priest Vitantonio Fecola and the mayor Giovanni Trotta stand out in this story.

Located on the top of a hill overlooking the Trenico valley, a tributary of the River Calore, the Municipality of Campora is characterized by the presence of a luxuriant nature, particularly beech and chestnut trees. The toponym, already testified in a document of the fourteenth century, refers to the Latin word "campus" and can mean both "plain place" and "agrarian surface".
In the past, due to its favorable geographical position, the town has played an important control role on the transit route that from Vallo della Lucania crossed these lands, and then continued on to the Vallo di Diano. Frequented and inhabited since prehistoric times, as evidenced by the numerous findings dating back to the Eneolithic age, the territory in which Campora stands was later equipped with a fortified tower: it was built by the inhabitants of ancient Velia, who wanted to ensure greater control on the road that led to the Vallo di Diano. However the formation of the actual inhabited center was had only around the X sec. when, following the continuous Saracen raids that ravaged the Tyrrhenian coast, the fleeing people found shelter in a Basilian monastery dedicated to San Giorgio.
From 1131 the fiefdom of Campora came into the hands of marquises, princes, barons and ecclesiastical bodies. In 1656 the inhabitants of Campora were struck by a plague epidemic, which decimated much of the population. Between the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s it was the turn of an agrarian crisis that forced many inhabitants to emigrate. Campora joined the patriotic revolts and saw its peasants occupy the owners' lands and react violently to the Bourbon regime. The figures of the priest Vitantonio Fecola and the mayor Giovanni Trotta stand out in this story.