Maierato

Maierato spreads over a hill with small dwellings still made, in part, of unbaked earth, having in the Matrix of St. Michael and St. Nicholas, of five-seventeenth-century origins, the barycentric pole and recapitulating the entire historic built-up area, which is accessed through twisted curvilinear paths and narrower alleys; the eighteenth-century churches of the Monastery and Santa Maria della Pietà oversee the more decentralized districts, giving urban planning a dimension of relevant consistency. Outside the town, but connected by varied and fragrant country paths, stand: the ruins of Rocca Angitola, a settlement of medieval origins; the Scrisi plateau, which still preserves an ancient farmhouse, historic fountains and traces of the via Popilia; and the small abandoned village of Pimè, where there are ruins of traditional houses and other neoclassical architectural elements.