Foglianise

Rising on the slopes of Monte Caruso Foglianise, it is located in the center of the Vitulanese Valley. The historic center of the city is characterized by a particular urbanistic form of Lombard layout with a network of alleys and passages. Of particular tourist interest are the Vico Grande and the Vico Russo, the latter located in Casale Oliveto is one of the most suggestive given its graceful stairways that stop at the stone portal beyond which a Roman column supports the portico from the vault. cruise. Monte Caruso presents the hermitage dedicated to San Michele Arcangelo built at the entrance of a natural cave, the complex set in stone has been redeemed and restored. The stone altar preserves a painting from the Lombard period. The church of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli holds precious paintings inside: the Dormitio Mariae from 1630, the Ascension from the 16th century and the mysteries of the Rosary from the 16th century. Inside the church there is also the statue of Sant'Antonio. The church of SS. Body of Christ and Sant'Anna was built in 1536 and was the seat of the ancient archconfraternity of the SS. Body of Christ; it is presented in Ionic style, inside there are several works by Jordan. In the sacristy there is an ancient library containing more than 2000 books and a collection of eighteenth-century shepherds. The rural chapel of San Rocco contains inside the statue of the homonymous saint who every year, on the morning of August 16, the day in which the saint is venerated, the wheat festival takes place. And it is right in front of the church that the wheat carts are blessed, the Saint leaves his church to walk the streets of the village; followed by works of art in straw. During the festival the city band performs dressed in local and traditional clothes. Among the naturalistic beauties, olive groves and vineyards stand out, a source of income and honor for the city. The Taburno winery is one of the realities of the place that for years has created a product of excellence that is exported all over the world.