Altavilla Silentina is a town of the Province of Salerno, in the Campania Region, just 70 miles south of Naples. Its population reaches 6,725 persons. It is located on a hill 900 feet above sea level and it is shielded on the eastern side by the Monte Alburno (5100 ft) and the plain of the Sele River and the Tyrrhenian Sea at West.