Salerno

Salerno is an Italian town of 135,591 inhabitants, the capital of the province of the same name in Campania, the second largest municipality in the region by number of inhabitants and the thirtieth nationwide.

During the Middle Ages the city was the capital of the Lombard principality of the same name and therefore of the Norman Duchy of Puglia and Calabria which included a large part of the continental South and was the original nucleus of the future Kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies. Salerno is home to the Salerno Medical School, which was the first and most important medical institution in Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages and as such is considered by many to be a forerunner of modern universities. University of Salerno, located since 1988, in the form of a campus, in the neighboring municipalities of Fisciano and Baronissi.

From February to August 1944 Salerno was the seat of the Italian government, hosting the Badoglio I, Badoglio II and Bonomi II governments that led to the Salerno turnaround. Starting from the second half of the nineties, the city has started a series of policies aimed at improving livability, urban decor and projecting, especially as regards tourism, Salerno on a national and international level. The city is therefore a candidate to become one of the hubs of cruise tourism and contemporary architecture, hosting works by the major architects of the 21st century, such as Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Bohigas, Chipperfield, Calatrava and Bofill.