VILLA COPPOLA

Villa Coppola one of Agerola oldest and noblest families, historic residence: the Coppolaa. Enclosed by a centuries-old, fenced garden, it dominates San Lazzaro’s main square. It was the home of Antonio Coppola (a. 1844/1919), lawyer and district attorney of the king at the Court of Ancona, Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, President of the Court of Appeals of Messina, and First President of the Court of Appeals of Ancona and of Andrea Coppola, (a. 1849/1937) lawyer and notary public. He had the second highest income in Agerola with thirty-five ducats and forty-one grana. Several times mayor of Agerola, he worked for the construction of the Pianillo – S. Lazzaro road, the road from Gragnano, the creation of a Post Office and the construction of the permanent municipal cemetery.