On the traces of Saint Nile: SAN MAURO LA BRUCA e SAN NAZARIO

Seized to the strata of a green hill, to 450 meters around on the level of the sea, surrounded from secular woods of chestnut trees, is the inhabited area of St. Mauro La Bruca, small Municipality of the Low Cilento, with its fraction St. Nazario that has a particular importance for its abbey which the cult of St. Nile is tied up. In 940 in fact he stops in this beautiful place in escape from Calabria.
Here he wore the monachal suit beginning a splendid story of asceticism and attivistico fervor.
Suggestive is the landscape around the Abbey, with streams of water that in the past fed numerous mills and an uncontaminated nature.

TIMING:

  • 9.30 a.m.:
    participants' meeting in the Chili square in front of the House of the Mayor. Departure for San Mauro La Bruca on a great tourism bus. Visit of the fraction of San Nazario and its abbey, the mills and the naturalistic path around the river.
  • 1 p.m.:
    lunch in restaurant tasting typical products of the territory.
  • 3 p.m:
    Visit of the village of San Mauro La Bruca.
  • 5.30 p.m.:
    reentry

In collaboration with our partner Travel Agency: Taddeo Travel Srl Il Filo di Arianna, Capaccio (SA) - Italy.

Info and Reservations

Tour stops

San Mauro la Bruca, view


San Nazario, ruins


Cultural Association "Cilento on the road"

Via S. Anna, 20 - 84050 Rocca Cilento (SA) - Italy