Caprioli


Caprioli is a southern Italian village and hamlet of Pisciotta, a municipality in the province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2009 its population was of 121.

History

The toponym, literally meaning "roe deers" in Italian, has a different origin linked to Palinurus, the mythological helmsman of Aeneas's ship in Virgil's Aeneid.Landed in the beach near the current Palinuro, and to get rid of a curse, the oracles suggested Palinurus to build an altar where sacrifice a goat. The altar, named Torre del Capro, was the original name of the village and was first mentioned in 1850, on a map of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
In the village, originated from the ancient monastery of St. Catherine, were built some notable buildings, as a palace and a castle, during the 18th century to the beginnings of the 19th. In 1830 It became a parish.

Geography

Caprioli is located in southern Cilento, along the Cilentan Coast by the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies on the national highway 447 between Pisciotta and Palinuro, both 5 km far. It is also linked to San Mauro la Bruca and Futani with a provincial road.
The village is composed by the wards of Valle di Marco, Fornace, Santa Caterina, Villa Verde and Pedali. At the southern borders of Caprioli, near Palinuro, is located a coastal tower named "Torre dei Caprioli", built in the 17th Century.