Origins
Who does it belong to?
In the earliest era of the foundation of the village, and today a town, Mugnano was known as a fief of the Roman nobleman Munians of whom there are few historical sources.
Later it was called Mugnano di Montevergine.
Both because it was built on the slopes of a mountain, then owned by this Archimonastery, and because, after its foundation, it was subject to the baronial jurisdiction of the religious Establishment.
On March 25, 1863 the name of MUGNANO DEL CARDINALE was confirmed to this district by the King of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II.
Mugnano del Cardinale has been part of the Baiano district since February 17, 1861 and formed the border of the Province of Terra di Lavoro (now the province of Caserta), and the stream called Ponte di Basso , just over a kilometer away from the last houses of the town, separated it from that of Avellino.
From that time, with the Royal Decree, it was aggregated, with the entire District of Baiano, to the neighboring Province of Principato Ultra, Mugnano still marks the boundary of the vast Diocese of Nola, on which it depends for spiritual jurisdiction.
Aerial view of Mugnano del Cardinale, 2018
Photo by: @ antonio.dacierno
Stradone, 1922
Photo by: @associazionearia
Neighborhoods
The town is built on a false plain between north and east, on the slopes of the mountains that surround the whole valley and in front of it a fertile plain stretches out.
Like any other ancient town, Mugnano can be divided into three parts: the first is the old or primitive one; the second is the one built after the increase of the population; the third built in the last epoch, both for the growing number of inhabitants and for the advanced civilization.
Neighborhoods
The configuration of the whole town is of a large arch, the buildings of the first and second epochs form its chord.
The ancient Mugnano is made up of only two alleys, placed at the top of the town and therefore on a considerable slope, very narrow and irregular. The construction of them has the whole system of those barbarian times, the name they still bear: Casa Russo and Casa Canonico denotes the origin of the first families who lived there.
The second part that makes up Mugnano, which was later to be the first enlargement of the town, is the circumference of the arch about half a kilometer.
It is divided into three parts: Piedimugnano the western part; They overlook the space between the Church of S. Maria delle Grazie and the Parish; Casa Bianco from the Parish at the end of the town.
Vico di VIa Garibaldi
Photo by: @ hirpinia.tesoridellaterra
Piedimugnano (Via Garibaldi)
Photo by: @ anna_effe28
Cordarauro (Via Mancini)
Photo by: @sabatodapolito
The diameter of this semicircle or chord of this arch is formed by the new and recently built part, called Archi so called from the ancient configuration of Mugnano ', or because a building was built with two arches in the prospect, which now does not exist.
The aforementioned Arco alla Corda is then joined by the old and new Mugnano, two roads that go down parallel from above to the Nazionale: Cordarauro the first, all populated except for a short stretch at the beginning and ends with the clearing of the Parish Church.
The second called Stradone, built in 1838. This road is of great convenience to the inhabitants and foreigners and a great ornament to the town, because it reveals to travelers the façade of the Church of S. Maria delle Grazie and Santa Filomena.
The streets are paved and paved with Vesuvian stones, except for a few small parts.