Teggiano

Teggiano is a metropolis and commune in Campania, Italy, within the province of Salerno. It is located on an isolated eminence above the top part of the valley to which it gives the call of Vallo di Diano. Among the historical centers of the province, Teggiano is without a doubt one which has high-quality preserved its historic appearance of the fortress and it's far this element that's shown to folks who reach the old metropolis. The look of a Roman oppidum nonetheless now remembered by way of the properly preserved plan of the Cardo and of the Decumanus, changed into renewed inside the Norman period and within the age of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen. Tegianum was built by using Lucanians early inside the 4th century BC, and later turned into a municipal metropolis of Lucania.

There changed into every other Roman colonization within the 2nd century BC, observed by way of a larger one application under Nero. During the Middle Ages Diano had a foremost role inside the records of the Vallo di Diano. In Norman instances, the Sanseverino own family, counts of Marsico and later princes of Salerno, took over the fief of Diano, which became composed of the hamlets of Sassano, Monte San Giacomo, San Rufo, San Pietro al Tanagro and Sant'Arsenio. Teggiano was ruled via the Sanseverino for over three centuries they chose the castle as a stronghold wherein they could take shelter at some point of emergencies. At that time Diano was surrounded by using excessive partitions with 25 defend towers and four gates.