Piaggine, also called “Chiaine“ in the local dialect, is a town and ''
comune
A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...
'' in the
province of Salerno
The province of Salerno () is a province in the Campania region of Italy. It has 1,054,766 inhabitants as of 2025.
Geography
The largest towns in the province are: Salerno, the capital, which has a population of 131,950; Cava de' Tirreni, Bat ...
, in the region of
Campania
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, in the south-west of
Italy
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.
The town is located on the river Calore, 93 miles (150 km) south-east of Naples, 57 miles (92 km) north-west of Potenza.
According to the official data, the resident population in 2020 was 1231.
Piaggine was originally inhabited around 1000 A.D by a community of nomadic shepherds, which found green pastures among the mountains near the river.
The town is famous for being the birthplace of the notorious brigant
Giuseppe Tardio.
Twin towns
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Sayalonga (
Spain
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)
See also
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Pruno Cilento
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Cilento
Cilento () is an Italian mountain range (part of the Lucan Apennines), which gives its name to a geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the province of Salerno. Is an important tourist area of southern Italy.
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References
External links
Comune of Piaggine
Cities and towns in Campania
Localities of Cilento
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