San Mauro Cilento

The town of San Mauro Cilento spreads from the hills to the sea, offering a varied and fascinating view. Documents and ancient artifacts displayed inside the Museum of socio-religious history of the Ancient Cilento witness its ancient origins.
The first settlement dates back to 1092, when it is said that a small village arose around a church to which the town is named aftert. Another document of 1309 testifies that the center was completely destroyed during the war of the Vespers. A century later all the Cilento fiefdoms, including San Mauro, came under the jurisdiction of King Ladislao of Durazzo. After various vicissitudes San Mauro became the seat of the curia, that is, the representative of the royal power for the contracts resided there.
Some significant finds, kept in the aforementioned museum, attest to the Greek-Byzantine presence: after the fall of Constantinople (1453) the young Rogerio, grandson of the last emperor, was held in San Mauro Cilento as a hostage to the king of Naples Alfonso V, who did not hide his hegemonic aims in the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire. Later, numerous Greek nobles found shelter in the diocese of Capaccio, and some of them reached Rogerio and, in San Mauro, started building a church dedicated to the Holy Spirit. We owe to Rogerio the realization of the wooden choir that makes a fine show in the parish church: the bas-relief with the engraved image of a crowned double-headed eagle, symbol of the Byzantine Empire, is singular. The half-length statues of San Mauro Martire and San Mauro Abate, dating back to the 16th century, testify to the religious history of the town. and said in the sources "relics" because they contain some relics of the saints, as well as a series of sacred vestments and some valuable paintings, most of which date back to the 18th century.

The town of San Mauro Cilento spreads from the hills to the sea, offering a varied and fascinating view. Documents and ancient artifacts displayed inside the Museum of socio-religious history of the Ancient Cilento witness its ancient origins.
The first settlement dates back to 1092, when it is said that a small village arose around a church to which the town is named aftert. Another document of 1309 testifies that the center was completely destroyed during the war of the Vespers. A century later all the Cilento fiefdoms, including San Mauro, came under the jurisdiction of King Ladislao of Durazzo. After various vicissitudes San Mauro became the seat of the curia, that is, the representative of the royal power for the contracts resided there.
Some significant finds, kept in the aforementioned museum, attest to the Greek-Byzantine presence: after the fall of Constantinople (1453) the young Rogerio, grandson of the last emperor, was held in San Mauro Cilento as a hostage to the king of Naples Alfonso V, who did not hide his hegemonic aims in the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire. Later, numerous Greek nobles found shelter in the diocese of Capaccio, and some of them reached Rogerio and, in San Mauro, started building a church dedicated to the Holy Spirit. We owe to Rogerio the realization of the wooden choir that makes a fine show in the parish church: the bas-relief with the engraved image of a crowned double-headed eagle, symbol of the Byzantine Empire, is singular. The half-length statues of San Mauro Martire and San Mauro Abate, dating back to the 16th century, testify to the religious history of the town. and said in the sources "relics" because they contain some relics of the saints, as well as a series of sacred vestments and some valuable paintings, most of which date back to the 18th century.