Eboli

Eboli: Basilica of San Pietro alli Marmi

Eboli, town, Campania regione, southern Italy, east of the city of Salerno. The higher and older section of the town dominates the Sele Plain. Historical monuments include a castle of the Colonna family and the small Romanesque-style Basilica of San Pietro alli Marmi (1150). Eboli is an agricultural centre, known principally for olive oil and dairy produce.

“Christ stopped at Eboli,” reportedly a local saying, refers to the miserable and backward physical and social conditions in the area to the south of Eboli; it was used as the title of a book of reminiscences by the 20th-century writer Carlo Levi. Pop. (2006 est.) mun., 37,103.