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Salerno is a summary charming as the Mediterranean can offer to all those who want to know him more closely.
The city is growing as a community welcoming to tourists and visitors from around the world.
In recent years the office has given impetus to urban rehabilitation and recovery of the functions of socio-economic territory: ancient monuments and churches have been restored, new parks and gardens opened in parts of town, streets and squares have been decorated and illuminated artistically; recovered numerous spaces for artistic, cultural and recreational activities, enhanced the plant sports with the construction of new structures. Has been made countless projects aimed at improving the living conditions of neighborhoods and, more generally, to raise the level of quality of life.

Evocative and extraordinary in the historic center of Salerno can see traces of both the ancient city history, both the fervor of shops and aggregation of local artistic and cultural and musical experiences from thousands of people.
The recovery of the heart of the city has aimed to discover the treasures of art and culture of a land exceptional.
Today, through the alleys and squares, churches and palaces, you can read past citizen, you may receive an image of events that have succession over time, witness the splendor of economic prosperity, social and cultural of centuries past.

The origins of Salerno lack precise information. The discoveries found suggests that the territory was inhabited by ancient times. We know that the Greeks brought in the vast plain crops of wheat and flax, dell'ulivo and orchards, while the Etruscans, the textile and ceramic and bronze.
Between 197 and 194 BC became a Roman colony, taking the name of Salernum.
Forward, enriching its culture and its traditions, even during the occupation of the Goths. But it is only with the conquest of the Lombards who became the most prosperous of the Mezzogiorno.
In 786 Arechi II moved the seat of the duchy of Benevento in Salerno, to escape the offensive of Charlemagne and secure control of a strategic communications at the heart of the coastal and interior of Campania. Prince Lombard did fortify the city already has the castle on the hill Bonadies, with walls and towers, and the new capital dall'839 was the rule and a powerful political center.
With Arechi II, Salerno knew masterpiece becoming the center of studies with the renowned Medical School, the oldest institution of Western European and medical hub of valuable scientific discoveries fundamental to the evolution of modern thought.
On 13 December 1076 the Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquered Salerno putting an end to the centuries-old domain Lombard. Under the rule Salernum Norman in the opulent palace were built on the Terracena Castle, the majestic cathedral and gave great impetus to science and Salernitana Medical School.
With the advent of the Swabians at the end of the twelfth century, we recorded a period of economic awakening of the city. Manfredi, son of Frederick II, built the pier that still bears his name and established the Fair of San Matteo, the most significant of Southern.
After the conquest Angevin the city was the residence of Queen Margherita of Durres that Salerno was buried in the monumental tomb today in the cathedral, the work of the famous sculptor from Baboccio Piperno.

From the fourteenth century onwards, most of the province of Salerno became the territory of the Princes of Sanseverino, powerful feudal lords, which attracted men in the city of art and culture. But in the early decades of the sixteenth century, the last descendant of Sanseverino came into conflict with the Spanish government, leading to the ruin of the family and the start of a long period of decline for the city.
The 1656, the 1688 and 1694 dates are painful to Salerno: plague and earthquakes produced countless victims.
A slow rebirth of the city will in the eighteenth century with the end of the Spanish and the realization of numerous noble mansions and churches that still characterize the main streets of the center.
Salerno in 1799 joined the Republic Partenopea. In the Napoleonic period Joachim Murat issued the decree of suppression of the Medical School Salernitana.
During the same period were also abolished the religious orders and confiscated several church properties.
The city then found its expansion beyond the ancient walls. A process that continued even after the unification of Italy and until the Second World War, with the expansion of many areas and the construction of large public and private buildings.
In September 1943 Salerno was the scene of the landing of the Allies and from February 12 to 17 July 1944 the Government hosted Badoglio.

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