The reopening of the Hermitage of San Michele in Le Grottelle di Padula is scheduled for Friday 21 March 2025, after the closure of the winter period.

After the renovation project of the rock sanctuary that returned this place of great historical and religious importance to the community, including it among the significant cultural assets present in the Vallo di Diano, we have activated important collaborations and received illustrious visits that underline the value of what has been done up to this point and bring out even more strongly the need for places like the Hermitage of San Michele in Le Grottelle to be increasingly known, connected with the territory and the religious community.

In this regard, let us listen again to the words of Don Dario Vitali, Presbyter of the Diocese of Velletri-Segni, Theologian and professor of ecclesiology of the PUG and Coordinating Theologian of the Synod of the Catholic Church who clearly express the need to invest in our territory and to safeguard our legacy of traditions, to rebuild communities around our Values.

We share the recent intervention of Dr. Caterina Ciccarelli of CAI Salerno who, in an inspection of the Eremo, underlines the importance of the riches of the territory and the need to enhance them.

The Hermitage of San Michele in Le Grottelle has recently been the subject of research and in-depth analysis by Dr. Eleonora Chinappi and published in the December 2024 edition of Venezia Arti, the art history magazine of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Consult the magazine here.

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