Villa Avellino - Residenza Storica

The sumptuous villa was built in 1540 by the Colonna di Stigliano princes. The palace remained their property until 1797, when it was sold to the Benedictine Fathers of the Congregation of Montevergine. When the order was suppressed in 1807, the property passed to the Dukes of Lusciano until 1836, when the property was sold to the archaeologist Francesco Maria Avellino, from which the palace took its name. The entire complex of the "Villa Avellino - de Gemmis", with an annexed park, has been declared by the ministry of environmental and cultural heritage, of particular importance and subject to a protection obligation on the proposal of the Superintendence for Environmental and Architectural Heritage.

It is an interesting building complex in whose foundations a Roman cistern is incorporated, still today called "Lusciano swimming pool" by the family of the Lusciano princes. The building maintains an eighteenth-century structure articulated around a central courtyard characterized by a scenic backdrop with overlapping arches and a set of pilasters on the ground floor. The main façade on Via Carlo Maria Rosini has a portal with simple piperno bunkers, while on the upper level there are seven balconies alternating with triangular tympanum and decorated cornice. The hanging garden rests on structures from the Roman era.