Mezzana Salice

Mezzana Salice is a frazione of the municipality of San Severino Lucano in the province of Potenza, located in the centre of the basin between hillsides sloping down to the Frido River and is the most populated village among all the small frazioni of the municipality. The origins of San Severino Lucano date back to the 16th century and the name derives from the San Severino family, 15th century feudal lords to whom the fiefdom belonged. In the centre of the town, the 16th-century Chiesa Madre di Maria Santissima degli Angeli church stands out, in Romanesque style with a nave and two side aisles, a fine portal at the entrance and nine multicoloured marble altars and a striking 16th-century wooden crucifix inside. In the winter period, the Church guards the wooden statue of the Madonna of Pollino. In Mezzana, you can visit the Museum of Artisan Civilisation where the shoemaker's, tailor's, carpenter's and farmer's corner are reproduced, and the Laboratory Museum of Minor Fauna of the Pollino National Park, which houses collections of arthropods and butterflies. Also worth a visit is the Mulino Iannarelli, a renovated 1745 building housing a typical restaurant and accommodation. It once belonged to Prince Sanseverino of Bisignano and in the 1800s was purchased by the captain of the mobile guard, Gennaro Iannarelli. A hydraulic sawmill and a gualchiera, a machine for processing wool, were added to the building.