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Historical Mansions Hiking Biking Ischia	BEAUTIFUL LITTLE MEDIEVAL TOWNS Places where you can look into yourself, face your imagination: places where you can "breathe in the sense of time," and smell the "odor of life and its seasons”. The villages are these enchanting places, whose centuries-old beauty transcends our lives. SOUTHERN ITALY Cisternino (Brindisi) The shimmering kasbah of the Valle d’Itria. In the 8th century, a group of refugee Basilian monks from the East noticed the ruins of an ancient village in this area. They decided to build a Greek Orthodox abbey on the same spot, which they called San Nicolò cis-Sturninum, right where the Mother Church still stands today. In the unreal silence of summer afternoons, when the drowsy village abandons itself to indolence before the coming to life again in the evening, it is nice to walk down the chianche (stone-paved streets) among the play of light and shadow created by the narrow streets, the arches, the underpasses. Dazzling white walls and blue sky: this is the poetry of the south. Acerenza (Potenza) The Cathedral Town. Perched on a cliff of tuff more than 800 meters above sea level, between the broad Bradano river valley and the Fiumarella stream, it is truly the caelsae nidum Acherontiae, the “eagle’s nest of Acerenza” described by the Latin poet Horace. The layout of the town is that of the typical medieval walled village. To those arriving from Puglie, Acerenza shows its northeastern side in all its imposing compactness, highlighting the rear complex of the Cathedral, built in the 11th-century in a Romanesque-Cluniacensian style. Santa Severina (Crotone) Byzantine and Norman illusions. The village rises on a crop of tufa rock dominating the valley of the Neto river. On certain days at dawn, when the mists enwraps the valley as far as the rocky support, it resembles a large stone ship. A ship in a vast sea of history, in which the presence of the past still glitters. Furore (Salerno) A Hanging Garden Between the Mountains and the Sea Terra Furoris, or “Land of Fury,” is the ancient name of the village, inspired by the fury of the sea within the fjord. Following the hairpin curves of the hill road cut into the green along the coast between Amalfi and Agerola, one comes to Furore, “the town that isn’t”. In fact, rather than being a town with buildings close together, it is a loose group of houses sprinkled across the rocky cliffs.
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