Roscigno is a small town and comune in

Salerno Salerno (, , ; nap, label= Salernitano, Saliernë, ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after ...

, Campania, Italy. It is located on the slope of

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Geography

Roscigno is situated in the central area of

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. It is within

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and the Cilento World Heritage Site. The municipality borders with

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and Sant'Angelo a Fasanella. The town is divided in Roscigno Nuova (New Roscigno, simply referred as Roscigno), the new settlement built after a landslide at the old settlement; now named Roscigno Vecchia (Old Roscigno), distant from the "new town".

Main sights

Roscigno Vecchia (Old Roscigno, also named Roscigno Vecchio – ) is an example of a 19th-century rural town developed around a central square and a church unmodified by modern architectural or infrastructural changes. It has been completely abandoned since the early 20th century, when the population moved to Roscigno Nuovo due to a

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. Now open for tourism, the ghost town was declared an ''eco museum''Info on roscignovecchia.it
/ref> in the early 21st century. Nearby, and also in the province of Salerno, there is another example of ghost town: the old village of

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. Some outside the town is the archaeological site on

, a settlement of the

Oenotrians The Oenotrians (Οἴνωτρες, meaning "tribe led by Oenotrus" or "people from the land of vines - Οἰνωτρία") were an ancient Italic people who inhabited a territory in Southern Italy from Paestum to southern Calabria. By the sixth ce ...

and the Lucani (7th-3rd centuries BC).

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Official website

Roscigno Vecchia website
Cities and towns in Campania Localities of Cilento Ghost towns in Italy {{Campania-geo-stub

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