From the Cutting Room Floor 2018-228
Among the early medieval towns of the lower Bradano valley, Miglionico is the only one to occupy a site of considerable importance thanks to its proximity to the director of the Via Appla, but nevertheless the role of the village up to the 14th century. it is limited to a very limited territorial area, differently from the neighboring settlements of Montepeloso, Tricarico and Montescaglioso which, instead of Benedictine bishops and abbeys, manage to play a role extended to a larger area. In the Norman period the fortified village occupies the western area of the current historical center on the highest site of the hill dominating the road routes in the direction of Grottole, Pomarico and the valley bottom, and is circumscribed to the areas of S. Angelo, S. Nicola , and S. Giacomo with a fort built on the site then occupied by the seventeenth-century Palazzo Corleto and the entrances in the fortified walls in the direction of the Mother Church and at the bottom of the current Via S. Giacomo. The settlement has a circular course parallel to the slope of the hill with a ridge path that connects the fortified area of the extreme western offshore to the gap in the perimeter of the walls. Along the urban axis there are numerous perpendicular alleys, the most important residences are located and the ancient church of S. Nicola dei Greci, no longer existing, located exactly in the center of the village. The hypothesis is also supported by the orientation of the Mother Church which, the first and most important nucleus of extra-moenia expansion in the early Middle Ages, is built, starting from the mid-fourteenth century, with the entrance facing the probable access of the part older than the town but when in the middle of the 16th century the development of the country will have already saturated the other areas, Torchiano, S. Sofia and Castello, it will be necessary to open another monumental entrance, under the bell tower, in the direction of the new city center. The early Middle Ages, is consolidated in the Norman period and is grouped around the church of St. Nicholas of the Greeks, whose dedication betrays the late Byzantine origin of the temple while the site of the seventeenth-century Palazzo Corleto, where was located an internal fortified area the oldest village could refer, if it were Miglionico, the news, from the chronicle of Romualdo Salernitano, of the construction of a 'castellum' by a Count Alessandro in the last decades of the century. XI.
From the Cutting Room Floor 2018-228
Among the early medieval towns of the lower Bradano valley, Miglionico is the only one to occupy a site of considerable importance thanks to its proximity to the director of the Via Appla, but nevertheless the role of the village up to the 14th century. it is limited to a very limited territorial area, differently from the neighboring settlements of Montepeloso, Tricarico and Montescaglioso which, instead of Benedictine bishops and abbeys, manage to play a role extended to a larger area. In the Norman period the fortified village occupies the western area of the current historical center on the highest site of the hill dominating the road routes in the direction of Grottole, Pomarico and the valley bottom, and is circumscribed to the areas of S. Angelo, S. Nicola , and S. Giacomo with a fort built on the site then occupied by the seventeenth-century Palazzo Corleto and the entrances in the fortified walls in the direction of the Mother Church and at the bottom of the current Via S. Giacomo. The settlement has a circular course parallel to the slope of the hill with a ridge path that connects the fortified area of the extreme western offshore to the gap in the perimeter of the walls. Along the urban axis there are numerous perpendicular alleys, the most important residences are located and the ancient church of S. Nicola dei Greci, no longer existing, located exactly in the center of the village. The hypothesis is also supported by the orientation of the Mother Church which, the first and most important nucleus of extra-moenia expansion in the early Middle Ages, is built, starting from the mid-fourteenth century, with the entrance facing the probable access of the part older than the town but when in the middle of the 16th century the development of the country will have already saturated the other areas, Torchiano, S. Sofia and Castello, it will be necessary to open another monumental entrance, under the bell tower, in the direction of the new city center. The early Middle Ages, is consolidated in the Norman period and is grouped around the church of St. Nicholas of the Greeks, whose dedication betrays the late Byzantine origin of the temple while the site of the seventeenth-century Palazzo Corleto, where was located an internal fortified area the oldest village could refer, if it were Miglionico, the news, from the chronicle of Romualdo Salernitano, of the construction of a 'castellum' by a Count Alessandro in the last decades of the century. XI.