Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

SAN LEUCIO'S TRADITIONAL SILK PRODUCTION GOES BACK 250 YEARS Indeed, this small town is the birthplace of Italian silk making. San Leucio has King Ferdinand IV to thank for this, as, in the second half of the 18th century, the monarch decided to turn this panoramic site into one of the rare experiments of Italian Enlightenment-era town planning. The revamped Belvedere palace became a new silk factory, as well as housing a church, school, royal apartments and a priest’s residence. And a workers’ village was built. A devotion to preservation | Interwoven