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 ““Salerno rima d’inverno, o dolcissimo inverno. Salerno rima d’eterno” (Salerno rhyme of the winter, oh! Sweetest winter. Salerno rhyme of eternity), these were the last verses written by the renowned Salernitan poet, Alfonso Gatto, about his city.
Salerno is an eternal city overwhelmed by history and bound to its traditions, a city of extraordinary beauty, not only for its landscapes but also for its architecture.
| |  Victim of the Barbarian invasions, its history is linked to its geographical position and to the history of the "Scuola Medica Salernitana", founded around the VI century A.C. in the wake of the medical school active in Velia from the V century B.C.
The Scuola Medica Salernitana was one of the most important and renowned medical schools in the Middle Ages, with scientists who drew directly on ancient Greek and Arab knowledge. Salerno is also known as "Hippocratica Civitas" (city of Hippocrates, an important Greek doctor) in honour of the importance of Salerno among the history of medicine. Furthermore, it is this school that gave origin to the modern University.
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 In 774 the Prince of Benevento, Arechi II, forced by the threat of Charlemagne, identified Salerno as a suitable alternative as the capital of his rule: a good point for communicating with other areas of the region and, above all, offered access to the sea. From this time on Salerno began to grow, testified to by the numerous structures built. Among these, the Castle, that to this day still overlooks the city, the Church of San Pietro a Corte, as well as countless other traces that can still be seen in the historic city centre, principally the "Duomo di San Matteo"(cathedral of Saint Mathew). Although originating from the following era, built in fact around the year 1000 at the request of Robert Guiscard, it holds the tomb of Saint Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist.
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