Cerreto, overlooking as from a high balcony on the green valley of Titerno, offers squares and avenues along which meet severe late-baroque facades of rare finesse, with some monumental emergencies of singular value, jewels of an eighteenth-century Neapolitan still chasing an ideal balance between ornament and function, of true and noble modernity.

Rebuilt in just eight years, after the earthquake that on 5 June 1688 razed the old medieval site and many neighboring countries, Cerreto is the result of a project as bold as simple: an open city, without walls, with an urban plan free from the centrality of the castle and the Church: a city thought.