centro storico, di fondovalle, Tramutola

Tramutola, a Norman-era borgo in the fondovalle, clings to a rocky spur, its historic core now marked by a considerable expansion of building. The centre is enlivened by the elegant portals and loggias of old noble palaces, a pleasing architectural legacy. Near the municipal building, the church of the Madonna di Loreto presents a clean, white-trimmed facade, its simple lines framing the corners and openings. On Via Chiesa stand the churches of the SS. Trinità and the Rosario: the former has a central architraved portal beneath a lunette and a bishop’s coat of arms, while the latter boasts a seventeenth-century stone portal with a round arch. Via Garibaldi yields the church of San Giovanni, with a rectangular stone portal and tympanum.

Tramutola’s history is bound to nearby Grumentum; destroyed by Saracens towards the end of the tenth century, it was repopulated by the Benedictines. Donated to the abbey of Cava in the mid-1100s, it later became one of the first communes in the region to renounce the Bourbon dynasty and join the 1820-21 Carbonari uprisings. The seismic event of 1826 brought down the towers of the former abbey.

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