• San Lucido, the Patron, Feast (28th July) in Aquara
• Bean Festival (November). They ancient inns return to life together
with the ancient and typical characters of the past (the Abbot and the Baron).
Many traditions and dishes revive and visitors can live them walking in the
streets: Giudea, Pavone and dell’Osso. In this occasion beans can be
purchased and many typical products can be tasted: “fagioli al tozzetto” (dry
bread with extra virgin oil and boiled beans), beans and prickly lettuce, pasta
with beans, “làgana” (a hand-made puff pastry) with beans,
in Controne.
• Saint Elias Feast (May), in Postiglione
• Alburni Jazz (August), in Serre
• Saint Blaise, the Patron, Feast on the 3rd February is very nice:
the population chose Saint Blaise as the Patron because of the plague and then
because of a terrible illness called “throat ache” by population:
it was the diphtheria, in Ottati
• Caciocavallo and cheese festival (14th August), in Corleto Monforte
• “Sfogliatella” festival (September), in Bellosguardo
• Wood strawberry festival (June), in Petina
• “Vitello Montano” and olive oil festival (September), in
Sant’Angelo a Fasanella
• Pastoral Cilentana Mass at Christmas Eve, at the Epiphany and in
the feast of Saint Anthony Abate and Saint Francis, in Castelcivita
• Feast in Roscigno Vecchia (September/October)
• Chestnut festival (October), in Sicignano degli Alburni
Stefania Maffeo
