Villa Littorio
Villa Littorio is an Italian village and hamlet of the municipality of Laurino in the Province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2009 its population was of 612.
History
Originally named Fogna, the village counted an ancient Fee named "Santa Maria di Vito a Fogna", that gives the informal name of Vito to the place. It was an autonomous municipality until 1875, when it was annexed to the one of Laurino.Some years after the rise of Fascism in Italy, in early 1930s its name was changed into the current one, referred to the Fasces, symbol of the PNF. This change was due to the meaning of fogna: derived from a dialectal word referred to a sort of ravine, in Italian means "sewer" and, colloquially, is a disparaging term. At the end of World War II, despite renaming of all toponyms related to the defunct regime ; Villa Littorio kept the name remaining the only Italian settlement with a fascist toponym.
Partly damaged after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, the village maintains its historic center, consisting primarily of stone-made houses.