S. Egidio culture is enclosed within its village which is well preserved. The most famous family’s palaces (Ferrajoli in the different descents, Spagnuolo ecc.) collect the best architectonic witnesses of this territory: aragonese doors in Vesuvio stone finely decorated introduce into internal courtyards around which the palace with its components is built.

This structure reminds of a culture and a social organization linked to farmers, where courtyard instead to be used to welcome guests was used to welcome the products coming from family’s lands.

Every year these courtyards live again thanks to an event organized by local Proloco which joins this architectonic aspect to flavours and music and craftman traditions.

To this world is also linked a typical dish: “pasta di sciuanelle”, a mixture of flour, water and lard, cooked in the oven, a kind of polenta which is eaten with beans and mushrooms.