Campagna

Infobox CityIT
official_name = Comune di Campagna
img_coa = Campagna (SA)-Stemma.png img_coa_small =


image_caption =
region = RegioneIT|sigla=CAM
province = ProvinciaIT (short form)|sigla=SA (SA)
mayor = Biagio Luongo
mayor_party =
elevation_footnotes =
elevation_m = 410
area_footnotes =
area_total_km2 = 135
population_footnotes =
population_as_of =
population_total = 15518
pop_density_footnotes =
population_density_km2 = 115
coordinates = coord|40|40|0|N|15|6|0|E|region:IT_type:city(15518)
gentilic = Campagnesi
telephone = 0828
postalcode = 84022
frazioni = Camaldoli, Galdo, Mattinelle, Puglietta, Quadrivio, Romandola-Madonna del Ponte, Santa Maria La Nova, Serradarce.
saint = Sant'Antonino abate
day = 14 February
mapx = #expr:40 + 40 / 60.0
mapy = #expr:15 + 6 / 60.0
locator_position =
native_name = Campagna
name = Campagna
website = http://www.comune.campagna.sa.it/

Campagna is a small town and comune of the province of Salerno, in the Campania region of Southern Italy.

The town, located in a mountainous district, gradually lost importance in the 20th century. All its district offices have been moved to other cities since the 1930s, and the Diocese of Campagna merged with the Archdiocese of Salerno in 1973.

During World War II, Campagna was the site of an internment camp. The Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci turned the camp into a shelter for Italian and foreign Jews, many of them sent there for protection by his nephew Giovanni Palatucci; Giovanni was later honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.

External links

*it icon [http://www.comuni-italiani.it/065/022/ Comuni italiani: Campagna]
*it icon [http://www.comune.campagna.sa.it/ Official site of the Comune di Campagna]