Antonio Fusco, a municipal councillor in Roccarainola, was appointed vice president of the Parco regionale del Partenio on 5 October 2026 during a meeting of the park's Community Council.
According to reporting by Il Mattino Napoli, the appointment was supported by the representatives of the municipalities present at the council session. A second local report confirms the appointment and presents it as a point of satisfaction for the Roccarainola municipal administration.
Roccarainola's position in the park
Roccarainola is described in the reporting as the only municipality of the Metropolitan City of Naples included in the park, and as its western entrance.
The park itself spans municipalities in the provinces of Avellino and Benevento, in the province of Caserta, and in the Metropolitan City of Naples. No separate official communication from the park authority setting out the new organisational chart was available in the validated research, so the council outcome is currently traceable to press reporting and the municipal administration's account.
A proposed foothill route toward Montevergine
For readers planning walks or cycling trips, the most concrete point of interest is a proposal put forward by the Roccarainola administration: a network of foothill paths and itineraries between Roccarainola and Montevergine.
The administration presents the idea as linking hiking, cycling, environmental protection and sustainable tourism. It should be read as an administrative direction rather than a finished visitor product: no executive project, funding decision or construction timetable has been verified.
The park's regional framework
The Parco regionale del Partenio is confirmed as part of Campania's system of regional protected natural areas under Regional Law No. 25 of 16 October 2025.
The regional legislation assigns protected areas the aims of conserving ecosystems, enhancing natural heritage and developing sustainable activities. For visitors, that framework helps explain the kind of initiatives the park is intended to promote: conservation-led management combined with low-impact use such as trekking, cycling and sustainable tourism, rather than intensive development.
What changes for now is therefore institutional rather than practical. The municipal administration frames Fusco's appointment as an opportunity for Roccarainola to raise local priorities inside park governance, and frames the Roccarainola–Montevergine itineraries as a future way to connect the metropolitan edge of the park with inland routes. Whether and when those itineraries become marked, maintained and signposted paths will depend on later planning and funding decisions.
