Cento Passi

This summer Codella Consulting will hold my Creative English Classes in the far upper reaches of the Centro Storico of Calitri inside a restored room in the 16th century Palazzo Nicolais in vico Tornillo - takes one hundred stone stairs (cento passi) straight up! to arrive from my front door in La Cascina. Ostiatim... The vico Tornillo Palazzo is one of the last remaining intact Palazzo's in the village with 20 rooms, 3 grottoes, even a small chapel...and one of the first places I explored in the old village by permission of La Portressa (in the foto below), camera in hand - ten years ago

'Cento Passi' - a personal play on words is, I found out, an important Italian documentary film

whose protagonist, the poet Peppino Impastato, dedicated his life to speaking out against the Sicilian Mafia, and suffered the consequences. They said the distance between the poet's house and the house of his zio - a reputed mafiso - was 100 steps...

see link attached in the title

'Tra la casa di Peppino Impastato e quella di Gaetano Badalamenti ci sono cento passi.'

Ricamatrice

Una ricamatrice sewing lace in a quiet corner of the Centro Storico

Irpinia Art Colony's Calitri Tours team is engaged in the cultural development of Alta Irpinia and in providing tourism services for Americans interested in discovering small towns away from mass tourism and for those who want to rediscover their Italian roots. Join the town every August through September for their annual Feste and discover a world apart. 

The 3 day package tour 'An American in Calitri. Discovering Small Treasures' includes local tours & accommodation to visit these ancient villages nestled among the green hills of Alta Irpinia in Campania, Italy. 

Come. Visit. Vi aspetto...

Contact: calitritours@gmail.com

Irpinia Art Colony