Salerno
Thirty-two monumental trees are registered in the province of Salerno. The “record” belongs to Cava de’ Tirreni which boasts four. Salerno, Vallo della Lucania, San Mauro Cilento, Capaccio and Pontecagnano three. Monumental trees are also present in the municipalities of Padula, San Cipriano Picentino, Polla, Agropoli, Mercato San Severino, but throughout the province, especially in Cilento. This is what emerges from the Report “Small Municipalities and Monumental Trees of Italy 2024″ promoted by the Symbola Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry and Coldiretti. In Campania there are 305 monumental trees. The series – which focuses on small municipalities – is enriched with a new volume dedicated to this asset of primary importance which equally affects the north and south of the country. A wealth whose valorization and conservation is even more urgent in the serious context of the climate crisis we are experiencing. “Out of a total of 4,287 monumental trees identified in April 2024 on Italian territory, 2,107 are found in small municipalities, 305 in Campania and thirty-two in the province of Salerno alone – says the president of Coldiretti Salerno, Ettore Bellelli – a figure that further enhances the role of small villages, which represent 70% of the total number of Italian municipalities but which host only 16.5% of the national population and represent 54% of the entire Italian surface area. The report presented in Rome by Symbola is a stimulus to intercept rural tourism made up of uncontaminated environments, through recovery projects to safeguard these villages”. “An agriculture that is becoming increasingly strategic – for the director of Coldiretti Enzo Tropiano – because it ensures the protection of the hinterland and the constant maintenance of the territory, especially in terms of defense of biodiversity, of which the monumental trees undoubtedly represent a heritage priceless, even from a tourist point of view. Also for these reasons, monumental trees, forests and woods represent an opportunity for development both for medium and large cities and for small municipalities”.
