News about the village is in a document of May 1168, when the abbot Marino of SS. Trinity of Cava buys by Goffredo from Corbella gardens«in casali Sancti Marci (or Mauri)» and Stabiano in the district of Cilento «et duorum fundorum in aliis locis».

The news about the inhabited locality are very scarce, becauseit followed the fate of Castellabate. Missing in Giustiniani, in Alfano and Galanti. Bozza says about a destroyed village near Agropoli.In the 70s the village was home to a major institute for education of youth referred rector Msgr. Joseph Passarelli.