The modern name indicates the inhabited part of the town, while in the past it was the name of a hamlet, that is a large and economically independent area that included the whole valley of Roviscelli stream, developed around Sant’Angelo Church: this area was called Montecorice.

The first mention of a village called Montecorice was in 1062. Montecorice belonged then to the Barony of Cilento. When the Barony became a feud of Sanseverino family, they donated some lands of Montecorice territory to the Abbey of Cava that had a certain power on this area.

The feud returned to be autonomous after the rebellion of Ferrante Sanseverino (1552), when the villages included in the Barony were sold by the Court in 1153. Then Montecorice and Rocca passed to Giordano family, that in 1699 obtained the title of dukes. They ruled this territory until 1806, when feudalism disappeared. In 1806 Montecorice became a hamlet of Ortodonico that was the chief town until 1927 when after a popular rebellion the seat of the town hall passed to Montecorice.

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