Celle di Bulgheria | |
Official Name: | Comune di Celle di Bulgheria |
Coordinates: | 40.1°N 39°W |
Province: | (SA) |
Frazioni: | Poderia |
Mayor: | Gino Marotta |
Area Total Km2: | 31.62 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 1861 |
Population As Of: | 1 January 2018 |
Population Demonym: | Cellesi |
Elevation M: | 234 |
Saint: | Madonna of the Snow |
Day: | 5 August |
Postal Code: | 84040 |
Area Code: | 0974 |
Celle di Bulgheria, also shortened as Celle, is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
The town was named after the Bulgars settled here with their leader Altsek (whose father was the second ever leader of Old Great Bulgaria) in the early Middle Ages.[2]
Celle Bulgheria is located in Southern Cilento, near the mount Bulgheria, and is part of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park. It borders with the municipalities of Camerota, Centola, Laurito, Montano Antilia and Roccagloriosa. Its hamlet (frazione) is the nearby village of Poderia.
Celle di Bulgheria counts a railway station, Celle Bulgheria-Roccagloriosa, on the Naples-Salerno-Reggio Calabria railway line.
Crossed by the "Cilentana" highway Salerno-Sapri to the south, has the nearest exits at Poderia (west) and Roccagloriosa (east).