The Chapel was founded in about the middle of 1600.But it was only in 1728 during a pastoral visit that it was referred to in connection with the confraternity of the Assunta. The confraternity consisted mainly of noblemen and erudites who got together during holy days to praise the holy virgin, and during the feast of Assumption they carried the wooden statue through the village streets. The lines quoted refer to a plea which the prior of that time around 1800 addressed to the intendant of Salerno asking him to intervene in a dispute with another younger confraternity composed of artisans, farmers and plebeians, called the Blessed Virgin of the Carmine. It was insulting for the confraternity of the Assunta that the confraternity of the Carmine had the precedence during the processions of the village. Formed several years after but formally approved by King Ferdinand II in 1857,just a year before the approval of the confraternity of the Assunta. The confraternity of the Carmine united all the lower classes in the Chapel of the Carmine, on the scales of the Tuvolo, a new district which was quite expanding. From this plea that doesn't refer to religious questions(but undermines it's sense) emerges contempt for the common people, composed of illiterate without rules and the request to restore that hierarchy of gentlemen, concerning also religious questions. Apart the local questions,-this throws also a light on the social relationships of that period - the confraternity of the Assunta just like all the many con fraternities of the Cilento, mean an important piece of culture becoming a characteristic of this territory and telling it through tradition. The confraternities developed very much in the Cilento from the XVIth century on. They widespread so much that each village had one or two. Up to now small villages with few inhabitants still have about 70 or more members. They regularly attend the devotional life during special occasions and particularly during the Easter liturgy. Without inquiring about the distinctive features of each, which could be quite interesting, today and in past the confraternities are still a reason for aggregation and sharing of the community, and not only that. In our Cilento the confraternities are also an opportunity to meet two or more communities. This is the case of Good Friday when near Mount Stella the various confraternities dressed up for the o ccasion first visit the churches of the nearest hamlets and then their own. The reason for all this is still uncertain performing a unique cerimony for the whole territory. The most striking assumption could be to recreate with the ancient ritual the unity of the villages in the barony of the Cilento which dissolved in the middle of the 16th century. Instead the confraternities started to multiply in this territory. Still today the rite continues to fix the memory and identity of a polycentric community saving it from dispersion.