Moliterno is a town and comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

in the province of Potenza

Province of Potenza

The Province of Potenza is a province in the Basilicata region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Potenza.-Geography:It has an area of 6,545 km² and a total population of 387,107 . There are 100 comuni in the province .-History:In 272 B.C. the province was conquered by the Greek army...

, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata

Basilicata

Basilicata , also known as Lucania, is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south, having one short southwestern coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea between Campania in the northwest and Calabria in the southwest, and a...

. It is bounded by the comuni of Castelsaraceno

Castelsaraceno

Castelsaraceno is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata....

, Grumento Nova

Grumento Nova

Grumento Nova is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. The ancient name of the town was Saponara.In the locality Spineta are the remains of the Roman town of Grumentum....

, Lagonegro

Lagonegro

Lagonegro is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is part of the Vallo di Diano, near the province of Salerno....

, Lauria

Lauria

Lauria is a city and comune of Basilicata, Italy, in the province of Potenza, situated near the borders of Calabria.It is a walled town on the steep side of a hill with another portion in the plain below.-History:...

, Montesano sulla Marcellana

Montesano sulla Marcellana

Montesano sulla Marcellana is a town and comune of the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-west Italy. As of 2010 its population was of 6,663..-Geography:...

, Sarconi

Sarconi

Sarconi is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata....

, Tramutola

Tramutola

Tramutola is a village and municipality in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata ....

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History

Tradition states that Moliterno was built after the destruction of Grumentum

Grumentum

Grumentum was an ancient town in the centre of Lucania, in what is now the comune of Grumento Nova, c. 50 km south of Potenza by the direct road through Anxia, and 80 km by the Via Herculia, at the point of divergence of a road eastward to Heraclea.-History:The first settlements, of the...

 by the Saracens, which occurred between 872 and 975. Several Grumentini, who had escaped the massacre, settled around a tower built by the Lombards

Lombards

The Lombards , also referred to as Longobards, were a Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin, who from 568 to 774 ruled a Kingdom in Italy...

. Moliterno was later a possession of the Normans.

Churches

• Chiesa Madre, inside it houses the painting of The Deposition, attributed to the seventeenth-century painter Pietrafesa
  Pietro Afesa
  Pietro Afesa was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in and around Naples. He was also called della Basilicata after his town of birth. He painted for churches and convents at Naples. He painted and altar-piece of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary for the chapel of the convent of...
  
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• Chiesa del Rosario
• Chiesa della Trinità
• Chiesa Santa Croce

Chapels

• Madonna del Carmine
• Chiesa Santa Barbara
• Cappella di San Pietro
• Chiesa di San Rocco
• Cappella dell' Angelo

External links

• Official website