Trip to Skye • 08
Channel: EMIAN
Date: 17/08/2020

TRIP TO SKYE by John Whelan
(Arranged and Recorded by Emian)

Emilio A. Cozza: Tin Whistle
Anna Cefalo: Electric Harp
Background Sound: Nature

Shooting: Pellegrino Tarantino/Nikon D500 📸
Video/Audio Editing: Emian

Location: La preta re lo piesco in Frigento (Av) | Irpinia 🌿

La preta re lo Piesco is a suggestive locality, about 7 km from the center of Frigento (Av).
We are located near the Ufita river and the sinuous hill on which this “buried village” stands, a Lombard settlement that flows between the tracks of the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic side, through the Ufita valley.
The preta re lo Piesco was born as an abbey/fortress and it is witnessed, for the first time, in a document of 1070.
The term "Piesco" derives from the Oscan "peesslùm-pestulùm", "podio-podium" (hillock); from the Latin “pesculus-pesculum” (protruding stone, rock) and hence the dialect “peskone, pischone”; or from the Greek “pessòs” (boulder, boulder). "Piesco", therefore, would refer to the large rock on which the Lombard structure still stands today.

The legends surrounding the site are varied and imaginative.
Some people think it is a place populated by devils and strange forces; there are those who speak of ghosts that would cross the walls of the limestone rock; still others speak of treasures hidden there by the brigands who occupied the area between 1850 and 1870. 
The most legendary version is the one that considers la preta re lo Piesco an unfinished work of a friar who wanted to build a solitary hermitage but, awakened by the shrill crowing of a rooster, he fled, claiming that the place was already occupied.
The figure of the brigand of Frigento Marciano Sapia, called Sacchetta, is also connected to that place. Also known as "Il Brigante del Piesco" because the refuge of his gang was concentrated in this place.
Popular tradition recognizes him as the chief of the area most loved by his men in the entire history of banditry.
This place was a very important point of reference for him, the place to organize his businesses. The bandit, in the shadow of la preta re lo Piesco, met with the local poor to give them basic necessities stolen from the wealthy of the area.

The perfect place for a melancholy and sweet Scottish tune.

Respect Nature. Honor your Land.