Comune di San Mango sul Calore, Provincia Avellino, Regione Campania

Brief History of Town

(see Wikipedia for a brief history of the town)

Population in San Mango: 1169

Frazioni: Cantarelle, Santo Stefano, Pescore, Malvito, Poppano, Carpignano, Verzari, Cesine

Bordered by: Castelvetere sul Calore, Chiusano di San Domenico, Lapio, Luogosano, Paternopoli and Taurasi.

San Mango sul Calore is a village and comune in the Province of Avellino, in the Campania region of southern Italy.

It is located east of Naples and north of Salerno, about twenty kilometers from the city of Avellino.

Nearby, Monte Tuoro is covered with dense forest, where asparagus and a variety of mushrooms such as porcini, black truffles, ovuli and chiodini abound.

Ponte Romano ("Roman Bridge"), also known locally as Ponte del Diavolo or Ponte di Annibale, is the oldest man-made structure in San Mango, built in about 100 BC. The bridge is composed of bricks, mortar and cobblestone taken from the Calore river that flows beneath it. It was part of the old Napoletana road that passed by the Sant'Anna chapel, curving down to the Calore River. The road eventually met with the Appian Way, the ancient Roman road that ran from Rome to Brindisi.

Ellis Island records indicate that the United States received immigrants from San Mango as early as in 1896.

Storie (Edited Video Broadcast on RAI Italia in 2016)

Go to San Mango sul Calore Website(click image on left)

San Mango sul Calore was completely destroyed by the earthquake that struck southern Italy on 23 November 1980. The reconstruction effort led to the creation of a housing project known as Villagio Canadese or Canadian Village. It was named after the fund-raising efforts from Italo-Canadians. The contributions of many Italo-Canadians and members of our association led to the successful completion of the housing project.

Notable during the reconstruction the effort of Comboni priest Father Ezechiele Ramin. The patron saint of San Mango Sul Calore is San Teodoro, known as the young recruit. There are two main statues of San Teodoro with one containing relics of his fingers which can be found in the main church. Incredibly, the original church was destroyed during the 1980 earthquake yet the two statues were unharmed.

1970 photo of town

More recent photo after reconstruction in the 1980's