E’ una testa di lupo, hirpus, l’elemento decorativo che caratterizza le ceramiche della necropoli di Piano Cerasulo. 

The “cart wheels” weigh six kilos, but the most common size is two kilos. Round loaves, of wheat and soft flour, risen with sourdough and baked in wood –fired oven : this is the bread which has made Calitri famous.The “cart wheels” weigh six kilos, but the most common size is two kilos. Round loaves, of wheat and soft flour, risen with sourdough and baked in wood –fired oven : this is the bread which has made Calitri famous.

Keeps the synthesis of its history in the name. A medieval town, built around a castle, the Castrum vetere, an ancient castle so: this is the genesis of Castelvetere, on the Calore (“of Calore“ until 1950) because the great irpinian river flows through the valley below Mount Tuoro, rising at 750 meters high on its slopes.

Montella is not only the heart of PGI chestnuts production bearing its name, recognised as Irpinia typical product. It is also a land of springs of water.

I Grimaldi, Principi di Monaco, per oltre un secolo, dal 1532 al 1631, possedettero il feudo di Monteverde, l’antico Mons Viridis che già ne suo nome rappresenta la verde Irpinia. 

Roasted and shredded, they appeared as an ingredient in different recipes of the “De re coquinaria” of Apicius, the famous roman chef who lived between the 1^st  and the 2^nd century a.D and recommended the use of “nuts of Avella”, in other words the nuts.