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Salerno in Campania

Province of Salerno

Region Campania, Italy

The Province of Salerno has a surface area of 4,917 square km, with a total population of just over 1 million inhabitants. It is administratively divided into 158 Municipalities. The Province includes the celebrated "Costiera Amalfitana" in the North, with the picturesque little towns of Amalfi, Tramonti, Positano, Conca dei Marini, Praiano, Cetara, Furore, Atrani, Scala, Minori, Ravello, Maiori and Vietri sul Mare, and the enchanting Cilento coast to the south.

The Comuni in the Province of Salerno

History

Since antiquity an important colony of the Greeks, it became in 194 BC it was a Roman territory, and maintained its culture and traditions during the occupation of Goths, Byzantines, Languebards and Normans. In the early Middle Ages the town of Salerno hosted the oldest university in Europe, the Schola Medica Salernitana, the most important source of medical knowledge in Europe at the time.

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