Salerno (It. Provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Salerno. In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Map of Italy showing Salerrno southeast of Naples Salerno is a town and a province in Campania, Italy. ...
It has an area of 4,917 sq km, and a total population of 1,073,643 (2001). There are 158 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).
External link
Provincia di Salerno homepage (in Italian) (http://www.provincia.salerno.it)
The chief buildings are the theatre, the prefecture, and the cathedral of St Matthew (whose bones were brought from Paestum to Salerno in 954), begun in 1076 by Robert Guiscard and consecrated in 1084 by Gregory VII.
In front is a beautiful quadrangular court (112 by 102 ft.), surrounded by arcades formed of twenty-eight ancient pillars mostly of granite from Paestum, and containing twelve sarcophagi of various periods; the middle entrance into the church is closed by remarkable bronze doors of 11th-century Byzantine work.
Salerno university, founded in 1150, and long one of the great seats of learning in Italy, was closed in 1817.
Locality: Salerno is the main town of the "Costiera Amalfitana", situated in the middle of two enchanting coasts, the Amalfi and Cilento coasts; it was the seat of the oldest university in Europe, the Schola Medica Salernitana, the most important source of medical knowledge in Europe in the early Middle Ages.
In 1799 Salerno was incorporated into the Parthenopean Republic; during the Napoleonic period, Joachim Murat decreed the closing of the Salerno Medical School, that had been declining for decades to the level of a theoretical school.
In September 1943, Salerno was the scene of the landing of the allies and from February 12th to July 17th 1944 it gave hospitality to the Government of Marshal Badoglio.
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