The Village

Cardile, Gioi district, is a village located in the area of the National Park of  "Cilento and Vallo di Diano" . It is located on the ridge of the Vesalo hill approximately 450 mt above sea level and 6.5 km from the village of Gioi.
There is divergent historical information about the origins of the Cardile population: its foundation probably has to be attributed to a group of Italian-Greek monks who built, between the 8^th and 10^th centuries, a Basilian monastery ("laura") called, even today, the "Laura". 
In the mid-sixteenth century, many farmhouses, that had appeared between the territories of Gioi and Cardile, disappeared because of the raids carried out by the Saracens, and it is assumed that the inhabitants of these farmhouses, forced to retreat elsewhere, built a new village: Cardile.
A period of famine in the 17^th century and the plague of 1656 decimated the population of various areas of Cilento: Cardile, unlike other centres, had a lower number of deaths than the average, while in nearby Gioi, the inhabitants were reduced by more than two-thirds.
Currently in the village of Cardile there is only a small number of individuals because of the different waves of emigration which, by the end of the 19^thcentury, affected the whole of Cilento.

The Genealogy

In accordance with the genealogical data the 529 individuals who have participated in  the project are linked in a unique 2440-member pedigree (for more information see the Gioi page).