Cava de' Tirreni is a town and commune of Campania, Italy, in the province of Salerno, 10 kilometers NW by rail from the town of Salerno.

It lies in a richly cultivated valley, surrounded by wooded hills, and is a favourite tourist resort. Porticoes in Cava de' Tirreni.

About two kilometers to the south-west is the village of Corpo di Cava, with the Benedictine abbey of La Trinità della Cava, founded in 1025 by St Alferius.

The church and the greater part of the buildings were entirely modernized in 1796. The old Gothic cloisters are preserved.

The church contains a fine organ and several ancient sarcophagi. The archives, now national property, include documents and MSS. of great value (e.g. the Codex Legum Longobardorum of 1004, and the La Cava Bible) and fine incunabula.

Sport

The local soccer team is S.S. Cavese 1919. Frazioni Annunziata, Alessia, Badia di Cava, Castagneto, Dupino, Maddalena, Marini, Li Curti, Passiano, Pianesi, Pregiato, Rotolo, S.Anna, Sant'Arcangelo, San Cesareo, San Lorenzo, Santa Lucia, San Nicola, Santa Maria del Rovo, San Pietro, Santi Quaranta.

References This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Site To Visit
Cava represents the gate  of Amalfitan Coast, from which it’s separated by a one miles verdant road.

Cava is a star-shaped town for its distintive urban stucture. In fact, it is characterized by a central city, the Borgo, and by more twenty hamlets which form a kind of crown to the Borgo. The origins date back to the years following the Abbey foundation in 1080.
The Borgo with its porticoes and the imposing noble mansions, characteristic sign of economical and political power, and the hamlets, still keep a lot of interesting heritages of their past made of arts, crafts and commercial activities for which Cava was rightly famous and appreciated.
The Borgo is not only arts, history and culture. It’s also night and day life; numerous stores, american bars, restaurants and pubs make this street a place to enjoy and to amuse, among lights and silent places which give to the ancient Borgo a mysterious and fancy atmosphere.

The particular position of town offers to visitors the possibility to reach many famous centers of storic interest, cultural and turistic place with easy link railroad and railsea and mainroad.