Minerva's Garden (Giardino della Minerva) is located in the heart of the old town of Salerno, in a zone known as the "Plaium montis" in the Middle Ages. It is halfway along an ideal route that runs along the axis of the walled and terraced vegetable gardens, climbing from the Municipal Park, near the river Fusandola, towards the Arechi Castle.
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The State Archives of Salerno is a public archival institution located in Salerno, Italy. It preserves historical records produced by governmental and administrative institutions that operated in the province of Salerno and forms part of the national archival network administered by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
The archive preserves documentation relating to the historical institutions of the territory, including records from the administrations of the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, as well as those produced by the local offices of the Kingdom of Italy and the Italian Republic. It also holds records from courts, state offices, and other public institutions active in the province.
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Salerno is an ancient city and comune in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. Some of the Allied landings during Operation Avalanche occurred near Salerno. For a time the city became home to Victor Emmanuel III, the King of Italy, who moved from Rome in 1943 after Italy negotiated a peace with the Allies in World War II. Salerno thus became the capital of the Kingdom of the South, the seat of the provisional government and Italy's de facto capital for six months. The city has 125,958 inhabitants as of 2025.
Human settlement at Salerno has a rich past dating back to pre-historic times. In the early Middle Ages it was an independent Lombard principality, the Principality of Salerno, which around the 11th century comprised most of Southern Italy. During this time, the Schola Medica Salernitana, the first medical school in the world, was founded. In 1077, the Normans made Salerno the capital of their lands in all of continental southern Italy. In the 16th century, under the Sanseverino family, who were among the most powerful feudal lords in southern Italy, the city became a great centre of learning, culture and the arts, and the family hired several of the greatest intellectuals of the time. Later, in 1694, the city was struck by several catastrophic earthquakes and plagues. During a period of Spanish rule the city suffered a crisis which would last until the 18th century, but under Napoleon Salerno became part of the Parthenopean Republic. In the 19th century Salerno supported ideas of the Risorgimento and welcomed Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1861.
The city is divided into three distinct zones: the medieval centre, a 19th century area and more extensive residential areas developed in the post-war era, which are made up mainly of apartment blocks. One of Salerno's patron saint is Saint Matthew, the Apostle, whose relics are kept at the crypt of Salerno Cathedral.
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Salerno Cathedral is the main church in the city of Salerno in southern Italy and a major tourist attraction. It is dedicated to Saint Matthew, whose relics are inside the crypt.
The cathedral was built when the city was the capital of the Principality of Salerno, over a more ancient church probably from the last Ancient Roman centuries.
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The Salerno Harbor station is a maritime station located on the pier of the commercial port of the city of Salerno, and is directly linked with the newly built "Piazza della Libertà" and the city's waterfront.
In 2013 the Ministry of Cultural entered the maritime station in the selected group of high-quality architectural interventions.
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Salerno railway station serves the Italian city of Salerno and was opened in 1866. It is the main railway station of the city.
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