RESIDENCE FLORA PAESTUM

Capaccio and Paestum are two places whose history is closely connected. The name of the place, originally Calpatium or "caput aquis" (the current Capaccio Vecchia, located near the sanctuary of the Madonna del Granato), originates from the Latin Caput Aquae (water origin). The current Capaccio is mentioned for the first time in a document dated 1051. Not far away, on the northern slope of Mount Calpazio, are the remains of Capaccio Vecchio, a village razed to the ground by the troops of Frederick II as a fief of the Sanseverinos, one of the families who participated in the Conspiracy of the Barons. It was a fief of the Berengario, the Sanseverino, the d'Avalos d'Aragona, the Grimaldi and the Doria. From 1811 to 1860 it was the capital of the district of the same name belonging to the Campagna District of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. From 1860 to 1927, during the Kingdom of Italy it was the capital of the district of the same name belonging to the Campaign District.

In the territory of Capaccio Paestum is located the archaeological area of Paestum, the Roman city built on the Greek colony of Poseidonia. The archaeological area of Paestum is one of the main archaeological parks in the world, with a museum, and is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In it you can admire three Greek temples among the best preserved in the world.