Caprioli is a southern
Italian village and hamlet (''
frazione'') of
Pisciotta, a municipality in the
province of Salerno,
Campania. As of 2009 its population was of 121.
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History
The toponym, literally meaning " roe deers" in Italian,[See "]caprioli
Caprioli is a southern Italian village and hamlet (''frazione'') of Pisciotta, a municipality in the province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2009 its population was of 121.
History
The toponym, literally meaning "roe deers" in Italian,See " capriol ...
" and " capriolo" on Wiktionary has a different origin linked to Palinurus, the mythological helmsman of Aeneas's ship in Virgil's '' Aeneid''.Landed in the beach near the current Palinuro, and to get rid of a curse, the oracles suggested Palinurus to build an altar where sacrifice a goat. The altar, named ''Torre del Capro'' (i.e.: "Goat's Tower"), was the original name of the village and was first mentioned in 1850, on a map of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and a ...
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In the village, originated from the ancient monastery of St. Catherine (1033), were built some notable buildings, as a palace and a castle, during the 18th century to the beginnings of the 19th. In 1830 It became a parish.[
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Geography
Caprioli is located in southern Cilento
Cilento is an Italian geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the Province of Salerno and an important Tourism, tourist area of southern Italy.
Cilento is known as one of the centers of Mediterranean diet.
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, along the Cilentan Coast by the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies on the national highway 447 between Pisciotta (north) and Palinuro (south), both 5 km far. It is also linked to San Mauro la Bruca (8 km) and Futani with a provincial road.
The village is composed by the wards (''contrade'') of Valle di Marco (seat of the train station), Fornace, Santa Caterina (on the road to San Mauro), Villa Verde and Pedali. At the southern borders of Caprioli, near Palinuro, is located a coastal tower named "Torre dei Caprioli", built in the 17th Century.
See also
*Cilentan dialect
The Cilentan dialect (in it, Cilentano, in Cilentan: or ) is a Neapolitan dialect spoken in the area of Cilento, located in the southern part of the Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy.
Influences
It has been influenced, especially in t ...
* Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park
References
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Frazioni of the Province of Salerno
Localities of Cilento