Valsinni.
The small town, situated in the river Sinni valley,
was a feud belonging to, among others, the Sanseverinos,
who were the princes of Salerno, the Vivacqua di
Oriolos, the Carpaccios, the Galeotas and the Morras.
Valsinni is well-known as the birthplace of Isabella
Morra, the famous poetess of loneliness.
In the area, on Mount Coppola, there are the ruins
of a town wall made up of squared blocks arranged
in staggered rows, within which there is a water
spring and the ruins of the acropolis built in the
IV century B.C. and inhabited until the Middle Ages.
The town boasts an ancient tradition of millers,
whose symbol is the mill of ‘Palazzo Mauri’,
which is still supplied with large stone wheels.
The economy of the town is mostly based on agriculture
and livestock breeding.
