Sacco

Originally, the town of Sacco stood at the foot of Monte Motola, near the Sammaro river, a place accessible only by two gorges, however its inhabitants moved, later, to a larger place.
We find a first mention of Sacco in the Angevin registers of 1269, its his feudal lord, Nicola di Sacco, received the order to send the a part of his soldiers to Northern Italy.
The small town later came under the dominion of the Sanseverino family, counts of Capaccio, until the second half of the ‘5th century..
In 1607, lord Fabrizio Lanario sold it to Pasquale Caputo for 16,000 ducats.
For 17,000 ducats it was then sold to Vincenzo Carafa and, later, purchased in 1613 by Giovan Francesco de Juliis, who then sold it to Scipione Villano.
On 15 November 1790 the eldest son of Villano became duke of Roscigno and lord of Sacco. Since there were no more heirs of this family, the fiefdom passed to Albito-Carafa but, in 1853, this family also died out with the death of its last heir.
Sammaro is one of the main sub-affluents of Calore Salernitano. Starting from Sacco and going down a dirt road, you can reach the left bank of the river and admire the impetuosity of its waters that will first flow into Ripiti, then into Fasanella and finally into Calore, under Castel S. Lorenzo.

Originally, the town of Sacco stood at the foot of Monte Motola, near the Sammaro river, a place accessible only by two gorges, however its inhabitants moved, later, to a larger place.
We find a first mention of Sacco in the Angevin registers of 1269, its his feudal lord, Nicola di Sacco, received the order to send the a part of his soldiers to Northern Italy.
The small town later came under the dominion of the Sanseverino family, counts of Capaccio, until the second half of the ‘5th century..
In 1607, lord Fabrizio Lanario sold it to Pasquale Caputo for 16,000 ducats.
For 17,000 ducats it was then sold to Vincenzo Carafa and, later, purchased in 1613 by Giovan Francesco de Juliis, who then sold it to Scipione Villano.
On 15 November 1790 the eldest son of Villano became duke of Roscigno and lord of Sacco. Since there were no more heirs of this family, the fiefdom passed to Albito-Carafa but, in 1853, this family also died out with the death of its last heir.
Sammaro is one of the main sub-affluents of Calore Salernitano. Starting from Sacco and going down a dirt road, you can reach the left bank of the river and admire the impetuosity of its waters that will first flow into Ripiti, then into Fasanella and finally into Calore, under Castel S. Lorenzo.