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the history of the village of Corpo di Cava

Village The construction of the "body of Cava" was intentional S. Alferio Pappacarbone founder of the Benedictine monastery of SS . Trinity already in 1012 he built a hospice for the poor and the pilgrims along with some less well-off homes pears. The first inhabitants of the "Body" were the peasants of the lands of the Abbey and the staff at Hospice. the will of St. Peter the abbot III and grandson of the founder sant ' Alferio , they moved to the Body of Cava some inhabitants of the valley, including the judges of the territory, officials of the abbey and the square "de lo commerce "and those who were employed at the abbey. Around 1081 Abbot Peter I found the hospice Alferio too narrow, the building will increase considerably in 1082 built a new home for the needy and the sick, located in the chapel of SS . Announced at 'entry in the country.

In 1092 Abbot Peter of ancient walls surrounding the village with three ports or eight turrets to defend the inhabitants from attacks by pirates ee of robbers.
That same year, September 5, he was visited by Pope Urban II, who consecrate the abbey church of SS . Trinità.All 'interior of the fortress were brought together different branches of' management and employees of the abbey, the court of the monastery, and the "body" of the magistrates, judges, notaries, hence the name of the village that still bears " Body of Cava. There 's Baron and Lord Abbot of the city exercised its right time and spiritual.

The fortifications of the Body of Cava, commissioned by Abbot Peter I knew degradation. Later rebuilt by the soldiers kings furuno Manfredi brought down by the King of Naples and Sicily, the natural son of Frederick II of Swabia that in 1265 during the war between the Angevin and Swabians, had found refuge in the village. Following the tranquility enjoyed in the districts of southern Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the ruined walls in several places while in others it is perfectly preserved.

All ' entrance of the village there was the door fortified the country's largest body of Cava, with the 'next door cylindrical subsequently demolished. The arch of the gate was decorated at the top of the municipal coat of arms consists of four bands with vermilion ee four silver with two gold and two poles are red, bearing the lily d 'oro won by Charles VIII of France in 1495 and the weapons Aragon granted for free by Ferdinand Statutory I in 1485. The surviving tower crowned with the coat of arms and walled Ferrante dated 1496, set against the lime kiln is fed by the rocks of Monte Crocella . In 1513 with the establishment of the diocese commissioned by Leo X, the Body of Cava that the Abbey was an entity building and inseparable, was excluded from previous jurisdiction Abbey.