Il più importante centro enologico della Media Valle del Calore, Taurasi, è posto su di uno sprone del versante destro che domina da notevole altezza (m.398 s.l.m.) il fondovalle, a monte del punto in cui il fiume è valicato dalla S.S. 90 delle Puglie.Le origini della nostra città si perdono nella notte dei tempi: i numerosi ritrovamenti archeologici attestano che questo territorio era abitato già nell'Eneolitico, come testimoniano i recenti rinvenimenti di contrada San Martino.Il nome di chiara origine osco-sabellica, fa riferimento al toro, mitico animale, condottiero della tribù dei "Taurasini" della stirpe dei sanniti, che giunti dal Nord andarono ad occupare una vasta zona tra le odierne province di Avellino e Benevento, che da essi prese il nome di "Ager Taurasinus" ("Campi Taurasini") o forse "Cisauna" ("Cis[D]aun[i]a"), al di qua dei monti della Daunia, e portarono alla nascita della città-Stato di Taurasia.
Dell'importanza che questa terra venne ad assumere, vi è testimonianza nell'epitaffio inciso sulla fronte principale del sarcofago del legato romano Lucio Cornelio Scipione Barbato; la città da lui conquistata nel 298 a. C. during the Third Samnite War and its territory was "sour the public of the Roman people."
Also near this city, the Roman consul Manlius C. Serratus, in 273 BC, defeated the armies of Pyrrhus. During the Punic Wars, the Taurasini sided with Hannibal and defended themselves so valiantly to suffer, from the Romans, the almost total annihilation. The city, at the end of hostilities, became "federate", that is an ally of Rome.
In almost depopulated territories taurasini in 181-180 BC, by order of the Roman Senate were deported to the Ligurian-Apuani.Durante the social war of 90-89 C., the city rebelled against Rome and was sacked, then had the status of municipia "and saw the Latinized name" Taurasium "and enter the tribe (constituency)" Cornelia ". After the battle of Philippi in 42 BC, during the Augustan triumvirate, the territory was given to Roman soldiers, veterans, becoming "a military settlement" and the new owners began to build houses, while another part of it passed into the hands of second wife of Augustus, Livia Drusilla. In this historical period is spreading the cultivation of the vine "Greece", in fact, Livy wrote a Taurasia from "Opima vineyards.
With the arrival of the Lombards, there is a rebirth and rises l'odierna Taurasi, quasi sul medesimo sito. Nell'883 e tra il 900-910 subisce una serie di distruzioni da parte dei Saraceni.Con l'arrivo dei Normanni, il Castello ("Castelli Taurase") viene ricostruito ed assegnato, nel 1101, a Trogisio di Taurasi della stirpe dei Sanseverino; con costui la baronia di Taurasi raggiunge il suo massimo prestigio ed importanza, infatti, essa andava dalle porte di Benevento e Avellino fin sotto il territorio di Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi.
Alla sua morte, la grande baronia fu divisa tra i figli: Alamo ebbe Taurasi, Giacomo ebbe Castelvetere, Mabilia andò in sposa al cugino Trogisio di Grottaminarda e Ruggiero ebbe Monticchio; quest'ultimo donò a San Guglielmo Vercelli from a piece of land where he rose to the Monastery of Goleto. Rebelling against Roger of Hauteville Count of Sicily, Alamo was deprived of his barony, which was granted to Gesualdo, and the feud was included in connestabilità Balvano.Nel Gilberto's 1147 Taurasi went on to Castelvetere Ruggiero, grandson of the Alamo from Taurasi. He married Pieronne de Aquila, Countess of Avellino, also had this city. E 'in November 1179 the first document which is cited in the lives of Taurasi, during which time there are the first houses outside the castle walls. In 1195, he took refuge in Pieronne Taurasi, among his beloved vassals, Avellino being unruly and rebellious. Meanwhile, the feud passed from baron Baron de Paris by Matteo Pagano by Castelvetere by Ruggiero Gesualdo Manfredi Maletta.Nel 1271 became Abbot of Montevergine John Taurasi: he went by order of Pope Gregory IX Lione.Nel the second Ecumenical Council of 1289, with the death of Henry de Taurasi, the feud goes Taurasina that goes to his niece in marriage to Henry de San Barbato. To these, in 1292, is ordered to go to meet with as many as 30 military crossbowmen Eboli: The event brings to mind the great wealth that Taurasi had at this time. In 1325, the war in full swing against the Aragonese, among other captains who went Anjou in Sicily under the command of Charles, Duke of Calabria, there is Thomas de Taurasi. We do not know why Taurasi has become the Lautrec in 1384, but not the held for long, because in 1418 he joined the feudal property of Caracciolo and the same year Thomas de Taurasi became Bishop of Monteverde.
In 1461, James Caracciolo siding with Giovanna D'Anjou was against the Aragonese, the castle was besieged and pillaged by the troops of King Ferdinand I, while the estate was granted to Louis Gesualdo, who , in 1490, sells it to Ettore Pignatelli. The castle already compromised and almost falling a few years later he was even bombed by Frederick I. In 1506 they returned with the Gesualdo and Charles I, from 1586, the city was rebuilt (including the Castle, as it stands today) and embellished di nuovi splendidi palazzi. Il principe madrigalista amò talmente Taurasi, da lasciarlo scritto nel suo testamento: secondo alcuni documenti, qui egli era nato nel 1566.Nel 1636, il feudo di Taurasi viene acquistato da Niccolò Ludovisi dei prìncipi si Piombino. Una ventina di anni dopo, una terribile peste colpì l'Italia e nemmeno Taurasi fu risparmiata, tanto che persero la vita più ella metà degli abitanti.Nel 1668, Giovan Battista Ludovisi cedette il feudo alla Corte regia perché oberato dai debiti, e pochi anni dopo esso venne acquistato da Isabella della Marra. Arrivarono poi i Carafa d'Aragona e in seguito i Latilla (dal 1726); uno di essi, Benedetto, nel 1754 divenne vescovo di Avellino. Nel 1779, con la nascita della Neapolitan Republic, Taurasi was also planted the tree of liberty. With the return of the monarchy, the Latilla, the Marquis of Taurasi, remained until the abolition of feudalità.Nel 1809 was officially the City of Taurasi. During the uprisings Carbonari there was a "Sell" and called "The omens of Clelia." In the first free elections held in 1848, one of the deputies elected in the Principality Ultra there was Colonel Vincent degli Uberti, a native of Taurasi, who later became Minister of Public Works. In 1860, Taurasi was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1893 and has a railway station.
Italiasotto accomplished the unification of the kingdom of Vittorio Emanuele IIThe Hall of Taurasi, being Mayor Ciriaco de Angelis, descretò 1868Durante to build this road in the two world wars, Taurasi made a great contribution of blood to defend the honor of the Fatherland. E 'must also mention the figure of Gerardo De Angelis, record film at Cinecittà, martyr of the 1992 Fosse Ardeatine.Nel Finally, Taurasi "Land of Wine", is common in Europe.
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