Torchiara

The medieval “Turris clara”, with the two hamlets of Copersito and Sant’Antuono, occupies a strategic geographical position, and is presented as a rich agricultural and commercial center, with developed tertiary activities. The name appears for the first time in a document of 1058, but the first true attestation results from an instrument of 1100, in which the bishop of Capaccio and the Abbot of Cava, having to establish the boundaries of some lands, mentioned just one " serra quae dicitur Torclara ”. The toponym, of Latin derivation, means "the illustrious among the towers", most likely because it performed a control function on the road that led to Cilento. For many years the lords of Torchiara were the Sanseverino, whose alternate vicissitudes also influenced the life of the inhabitants of the small town, until they reached the XVIII century, when the barons De Conciliis took over, who administered the village through four people " Elette ", from different social backgrounds (gentlemen, artists, farmers and laborers).

The medieval “Turris clara”, with the two hamlets of Copersito and Sant’Antuono, occupies a strategic geographical position, and is presented as a rich agricultural and commercial center, with developed tertiary activities. The name appears for the first time in a document of 1058, but the first true attestation results from an instrument of 1100, in which the bishop of Capaccio and the Abbot of Cava, having to establish the boundaries of some lands, mentioned just one " serra quae dicitur Torclara ”. The toponym, of Latin derivation, means "the illustrious among the towers", most likely because it performed a control function on the road that led to Cilento. For many years the lords of Torchiara were the Sanseverino, whose alternate vicissitudes also influenced the life of the inhabitants of the small town, until they reached the XVIII century, when the barons De Conciliis took over, who administered the village through four people " Elette ", from different social backgrounds (gentlemen, artists, farmers and laborers).