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The mines for the extraction of ichthyol, a fossil substance from which an ointment with an antiseptic action was obtained, operated in the first half of the twentieth century. Subsequently, the spread of mercury-chromium caused the decline in the use of this precious substance.

On the slopes of Mount Terminio, in the territory of Serino, there is the ancient sanctuary of the Santissimo Salvatore, entirely dug into the rock and adapted for liturgical and residential use for a small hermit community. The cave appears to have been excavated around the end of the 1300s by a Benedictine religious community that resided at the time in the Cerreto Abbey. Inside there are the statues of the SS Salvatore and San Michele Arcangelo

The Hermitage of San Magno is an ancient natural cave located on the mountain of the same name, in which - according to a deep-rooted tradition - the Bishop of Trani San Magno took refuge during his escape from the persecutions of Decius. In fact, it would seem that during his long pilgrimage from Trani to Rome, he stopped at this hermitage which today bears his name, from 220 to 230 AD. Here he would have done the work of catechising the local population, to whom he would have appeared after his death in 251 AD, asking them to build a hermitage in the cave where he had lived. An image of the Saint, believed to be miraculous, is frescoed on the rock wall and dated 1541.

The Chiesa del SANTISSIMO SALVATORE was not dedicated to one of the many people whom we venerate as blessed or saints and ask for their heavenly intercession with God; but dedicated to the incarnate Son of God Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and Saviour. In the Italian language, "San Salvatore" is usually not simply used, as is generally the case with saints, but there is also the linguistic increase to the "Most Holy Redeemer", i.e. the "Santissimo Salvatore".

Every year on August 6, the pilgrimage to the Hermitage of the Santissimo Salvatore is commemorated, in his honor and that of San Michele Arcangelo. Festival dating back to the 1600s.

Medium-high demanding route ....... Among chestnut groves and ferns, starting from the Cerreto Picnic area

Beautiful sanctuary embedded in the rock, a very suggestive place of worship and prayer

Sanctuary of the Santissimo Salvatore above Serino.