centro storico, collinare, pianificato, difensivo, Teggiano, Tegea (denominazione storica, epoca lucana), Tegianum (denominazione storica, epoca romana), Dianum (denominazione storica, dal IV sec.), Diano (denominazione storica, epoca medievale fino al 1862)

Teggiano sits alone on a high plateau above the Vallo di Diano, a position that has preserved its ancient character while other towns in the valley succumbed to sprawl. This is a place that still reads clearly as a Roman oppidum, its cardo and decumanus visible in the street plan, reinforced later by Norman and Swabian builders. Walk the lanes and you find Roman fragments embedded in church walls, civic buildings, palace façades and monastery cloisters. The classical grid is a quiet, rational counterpoint to the medieval drama above: a castle begun by Ladislao of Durazzo early in the fifteenth century, probably on Norman foundations, then turned into a royal fortress by Ferdinand I of Aragon. Teggiano’s historic core is a dense, legible palimpsest of Roman, medieval, Renaissance and nineteenth-century layers, neither museum nor theme park, but a working town that happens to wear two millennia of history on its sleeve.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.