Castel San Giorgio

Castel San Giorgio is an Italian town of 13,740 populations within the province of Salerno in Campania. Before the unification of Italy it changed into known as San Giorgio, and Castel was brought with a prefectural decree dated four January 1863. The current municipal territory turned into once a necessary a part of the town of Nuceria Alfaterna. In its ancient territorial solidarity it has visible, over the centuries, moments of terrific historical and social hobby. The territory imposes itself on the eye of history as it has been crossed by means of battle occasions that begin from the agencies of Hannibal in Campania.

The latter commander of the army of Carthage fighting with Rome inside the Punic wars, crossed the Montagna Spaccata seeing that then renamed Passo dell Orco, from the nickname that became given to the bloody Hannibal together with his squaddies and with its elephants and rested briefly inside the location of Campomanfoli, the present day hamlet of Castel San Giorgio, earlier than putting Nuceria Alfaterna to fire and sword. Castel San Giorgio brilliantly lived the Roman duration way to the gratitude of the Roman Senate for having stoically tried to arrest Hannibal, the middle Ages and the Renaissance.