Villa Avenia - agriturismo - bed and breakfast

The gardens of the Agriturismo Villa Avenia were part of the si Santo Spirito monastery, founded in 1235, outside the city walls. From an act of the same year it appears that the nuns requested the right of passage on a land, for an aqueduct whose source is upstream of the monastery, in a place denoted Aquarola not far from the monastery of San Leone, from which it will later take name the source. In 1238 they obtained permission to use this water for the use of the monastery. The nuns then built the masonry aqueduct that had to cross several lands to reach Santo Spirito. The water therefore initially had to be used only for the use of the monastery, but later, given the abundance of the spring, it was distributed, behind the payment of a census, first to the nearby monasteries and then to the private land. The last level of the Garden hosts a vineyard. The current owners produce an excellent organic wine, with Primitivo, Merlo and Uva di troia grapes. It should be specified that the Agriturismo Villa Avenia is part of the Baldassarre farm, the company owns land in the town of Salerno, where a vineyard of citrus groves, orchards and orchards are planted, in the municipality of Auletta, where there is the olive grove composed of about 600 plants while other land is present in the municipality of Petina