It is an area inhabited since prehistoric times and marked by remarkable archaeological, artistic, monumental and environmental testimonies, which create a splendid combination of art, tradition and nature.

The whole area of the Municipality of Fontanarosa, a small town in the Valle del Calore, has been inhabited since prehistoric times and is marked by remarkable archaeological, artistic, monumental and environmental testimonies, which create a splendid combination of art, tradition and nature.

A recent study by the competent Archaeological Superintendence has shown that in the area of the Municipality of Fontanarosa there are some important archaeological sites that are dated from the fourth millennium BC as the one in Fievo or those, relatively recent, in locality S. Elia (XVIII sec. a.c.) and in locality Torano (II - IV sec. a.c.). The village of Fontanarosa has the characteristic of all the medieval villages: part flat, fertile, rich in water and part, instead, hilly, rather bumpy, with emerging rocks and covered with woods, of which traces still remain.

The flat area slopes gently towards the valley, where flows the Fredane River, major tributary of the Calore River. Fontanarosa had its castle in the highest part of the rocky hill with the houses arranged in a semicircle served by a wider road, from which radiated almost like ramps, a myriad of narrow streets. In the lower part the village ended with the walls on which some doors opened. The ancient village is a maze of ancient streets and paved alleys, where you can admire the beautiful stone portals, the work of local artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

And it is precisely the craftsmanship, the Ancient Art handed down from generation to generation, the main feature of Fontanarosa: the art of working stone, weaving straw, beating iron, shaping wood. In Roman times, the development of Fontanarosa was particularly linked to the events of the nearby Aeclanum, as shown by the archaeological evidence found in its territory. Later, during the Norman period, it belonged to the County of Frigento and was administered for a long time by the Gesualdo. In 1672 Fontanarosa was bought by the Tocco family of Montemiletto, who kept it until the fall of feudalism. Fontanarosa is 11 km from the A 16 Naples-Bari motorway, with exit at Grottaminarda. Continuing to the S.S.164 it can also be reached by bus Fontanarosa-Avellino, with connections to Avellino or Grottaminarda