TEORA

Teora, Province of Avellino, Region Campania, Italy

Teora is a little town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy. It has 1,571 inhabitants. The patron is Saint Nicholas (remembered on August 13 and on December 6)

Teora: the state a little after Lioni, passes over the train station of Avellino-Rochetta Saint Antonio, immediately after the tributary of Ofanto and rises, exceeding the spur between the river and its tributary in Fiumicello; as one reascends to cross this final point, one rejoins at 65 km, Teora, 660 m altitude, 1570 inhabitants, an agricultural centre with some artisanal activities of antique origin. It is dated back to 1098. In the XII century it was called Tugurium Biarium; in following century it was the principality of the Mirelli. It was destroyed by the earthquake of 1694 and again in the earthquake of 1980. Worth seeing are the Feudal Palaces, with antique towers.

One rises to the nearby surroundings of Mount Cresta of Gallo at 885m and passes above the Appennin display of the Puglian acqueducts, exactly on the point where the road almost reaches maximal altitude of 772m; one then rises amidst the scarce arboreal vegetation, with a lot to see on the left on the valley of Ofanto and facing it. The view further on, looks onto the left of the valley of the Sele, at 71.4km and to the Sella di Conza at 697 m, the latter divided between the valleys of Ofanto and of Sele. Noteworthy of mention is the road where the Appia crosses the 91st state, of the valley of the Sele.

Monuments in Teora

Fountain of Monte

Fountain, said also of the Dead men, has much far origins that are made to go back to XII the century when the Church of Conza was indicated from Pope Callisto II like blessed necropoli and f here journeyed wagons directed to Conza in order to bury corpses. Fountain, completely remade in the centuries, today is composed by a simple structure building realized with regular frames to which is leaned a simple bathtub in stone.

Church of Saint Nicholas

The precise date of building of the church is not known since all documents were lost in a fire in 1690. Probably the church has been many times reconstructed many times, and the present structure, with a 16th century appearance, was not reached until the 20th century. Four times the church has been destroyed from earthquakes (1604, 1694, 1732, 1980). Today of the majestic structure remains only a spectral fragment of the a[dr's wall, the skeleton of the greater altar and the bases in stone of the ancient columns. In the new church, rebuilt after the 1980 earthquake , includes pieces coming from the destroyed Church and the Congregation di Morti, also destroyed by the earthquake of 1980

Corona flour mill

Situated to the margins of the historical center of the country, the water flour mill belonged to the noble family Crown, receives the visitors that come from the north-west. A sure dating of the building is not known but it can, with good approximation, place the building at the end of the '700. The activity of the flour mill has been concluded in ‘50 years and the earthquake of November 1980 has destroyed, then, the central part of the construction.

Fountain (public washhouse) of Piano

Situated to the west of the country, the construction in clear stone shows a rectangular prospect subdivided in three zones from pillars. The water comes from five masks in sto ne in order and goes into three bathtubs leaned to the wall. In the rear zone of the construction, there are situated public washhouses. On the wall a lapide is embedded; it is the most ancient than Teora and ago reference to 1728

Stone of the civil weddings

The Congrega public square is so called because there was the Congrega little church. A time, in that one piazzetta, there was a tree under which it had been placed a stone table on which it came written up public documents and made the civil ritual of the wedding. It is unknown in which time the civil ritual of the wedding came celebrated in public and on this public square; it is known, however, the ritual phrase, conversed, than the spouses recited to fine ritual. The table is constituted from two stone pillars with on a thick slab 20 cm