Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino (
Campanian
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: ) s a town and ''
comune
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'' 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
Campania
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region of southern
Italy
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. The town is commonly known also in the abbreviated naming form of ''Sant'Egidio Montalbino''.
Geography
Located at the feet of the
Monti Lattari
The Monti Lattari (Lattari Mountains) are a mountain range in Campania, southern Italy, which constitutes the backbone of the Sorrentine peninsula and of the Amalfi Coast.
Geography
The Monti Lattari are the western extension of the Monti Picent ...
, the town is bordered by
Angri
Angri is a town and ''comune
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,
Corbara
Corbara is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Geography
The municipality borders with Angri, Lettere (Province of Naples, NA), Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino and Tramonti, Campania, Tra ...
,
Pagani,
San Marzano sul Sarno and
Tramonti.
History
In Roman times, villas and an aqueduct were built in this area.
In the 8th century, the nocerini who had escaped from Nuceria Alfaterna took refuge there and the monks founded the Abbey of San Nicola and Sant'Egidio, which later became Santa Maddalena in Armillis.
From the 15th century it was known as Universitas Sanctii Ægidii, part of Nocera dei Pagani, at the end of the 16th century the city of Corbara separated from it and became an autonomous university. In 1806 the municipality of Sant'Egidio was born. In 1928 it was, for a few years, a fraction of the municipality of Angri.
The poet and composer Aniello Califano was from Sant'Egidio, who wrote the famous song 'O surdato 'nnammurato.
Main sights
Sights include the so-called ''Fonte Helvius'', a Roman marble slab portraying the god
Sarnus: it contains a fountain fed by an ancient subterranean aqueduct.
See also
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Chiunzi
References
External links
Cities and towns in Campania
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