Roscigno is a small town and

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. It is located on the slope of Monte Pruno.

Geography

Roscigno is situated in the central area of

Cilento Cilento () is an Italian mountain range (part of the Lucan Apennines), which gives its name to a geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the province of Salerno. Is an important tourist area of southern Italy. ...

. It is within Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park and the Cilento

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. The municipality borders with Bellosguardo, Corleto Monforte, Laurino, Sacco 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

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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 Romagnano al Monte. Some outside the town is the archaeological site on Monte Pruno, a settlement of the

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

References

External links

Official website

Roscigno Vecchia website
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Geography

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