The Agro Nocerino Sarnese is a geographical region of the
Province of Salerno, in
Campania
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in southern Italy; the river
Sarno
Sarno is a town and '' comune'' and former Latin Catholic bishopric of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, 20 km northeast from the city of Salerno and 60 km east of Naples by the main railway.
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flows through it. It is a low-lying area bounded to the south by the
Monti Lattari, to the east and north-east by the
Monti Picentini and to the west by the plain of
Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius ( ; it, Vesuvio ; nap, 'O Vesuvio , also or ; la, Vesuvius , also , or ) is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of ...
. It consists of sixteen
comuni:
Angri,
Bracigliano,
Castel San Giorgio,
Corbara,
Nocera Inferiore,
Nocera Superiore,
Pagani,
Roccapiemonte,
San Marzano sul Sarno,
San Valentino Torio,
Santa Maria la Carità
Santa Maria la Carità ( nap, Santa Maria 'a Carità) is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about southeast of Naples
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,
Sant'Antonio Abate,
Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino,
Sarno
Sarno is a town and '' comune'' and former Latin Catholic bishopric of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, 20 km northeast from the city of Salerno and 60 km east of Naples by the main railway.
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,
Scafati and
Siano. All are in the
province of Salerno except Santa Maria la Carità and Sant'Antonio Abate, which are in the
province of Naples.
Agriculture
The Agro Nocerino Sarnese is the core area of production of the
San Marzano tomato, which, as the Pomodoro San Marzano dell’Agro Sarnese-Nocerino, has
DOP status.
The
Napoletana breed of
domestic goat is distributed in the area.
Province proposal
On 17 November 1999, a law was proposed to the
XIII Legislature of the Republic which would have made the Agro Nocerino Sarnese an
Italian province; the law was not passed. The proposed province would have had an area of and a population of 271,017.
References
Landforms of Campania
Plains of Italy
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