Tortorella 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 ...
'' of 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 ...
,
Campania
Campania is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy located in Southern Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian Peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islan ...
, in south-western
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
.
Geography
Located in southern
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.
...
, 11 km from the
Cilentan Coast
The Cilento Coast (Italian: ''Costiera Cilentana'') is an Italian stretch of coastline in Cilento, on the southern side of the Province of Salerno. It is situated between the gulfs of Salerno and Policastro, extending from the municipalities o ...
, Tortorella is a hill town located in the middle of a large forest area part of
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park
Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park (Italian language, Italian ''Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni'') is an List of National Parks of Italy, Italian national park in the Province of Salerno, in Campania in southe ...
.
The bordering municipalities are
Casaletto Spartano
Casaletto Spartano is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
History
The town has medieval origins and originated around the settlement of ''Spartoso'', from which it derives the toponym, c ...
,
Morigerati
Morigerati ( Cilentan: ''Murgirati'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
History
The village was probably founded by the ancient Italic people of the Morgetes. It was later coloni ...
,
Santa Marina,
Sapri
Sapri is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is one of the southernmost towns of the region of Cilento and its population is 6,783.
History
The town of Sapri has ancient origins an ...
,
Torraca
Torraca is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
History
The LED city
In 2007, the town spent 280,000 euro to convert all its 700 street lamps to LED technology - a first in Europe - and t ...
,
Vibonati
Vibonati ( Cilentan: ''Livunati'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Geography
Located in southern Cilento, Vibonati is a hilltown nearby the Cilentan Coast, few km far from Sapri, ...
and
Rivello
Rivello (''Rëviell'' in Lucanian Dialect, the rivellese dialect) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. The population was 2,515 as of March 2024.
Geography
Territory
The town sit ...
, the last in the ''regione'' of
Basilicata
Basilicata (, ; ), also known by its ancient name Lucania (, , ), is an administrative region in Southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south. It has two coastlines: a 30-kilometr ...
. The only hamlet (''
frazione
A ''frazione'' (: ''frazioni'') is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' ('municipality') in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist era (1922–1943) as a way to consolidat ...
'') is the village of Caselle.
See also
*
Cilentan dialect
The Cilentan dialect (endonym: or ; ), also known as Cilento dialect, 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, especia ...
References
External links
Official website
Localities of Cilento
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