Campania

Eboli

Where the modern world ends.

A local saying is: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ only came to Eboli). This is how the Italian author Carlo Levi named his autobiographical novel, which describes poverty in Southern Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. According to his book, the farmers of Campania live in prehistoric times and are dominated by superstition and resignation. Among other things, he writes: “The only building that meets metropolitan standards is a urinal frequented only by pigs and children, a single person often used it for the purpose to which it was built, and that was me; As I must admit, I was not driven by a need, but only by homesickness. ”

Grotta di Pertosa

Roman place of worship and stalactite cave

One can access the 35 million year old limestone cave south of Pertosa only by boat. Once inside you travel 300 meters through the cave on the “black river” (Fiume negro) before you get off. The short tour takes an hour. A more detailed tour is also available: it takes about two hours and leads through huge cavities and tunnels to a small chapel. Before it was dedicated to Archangels Michael by the Christians, the Grotto was used as a place of worship by the Greeks and Romans

Marina di Ieranto

Beach along the cobalt-blue sea

This small cove at the end of the Sorrento Peninsula beckons with a beach that can only be reached by foot from Nerano. If you start in Massa Lubrense, you can admire the cobalt-blue sea on both sides of the ridge and gaze across the water at Mount Vesuvius, Ischia or Salerno. You can reach the trailhead by taking a bus or taxi from Nerano. (4 hrs, 8.2 km, elevation gain: 210 m, loss: 320 m) 

Punta Campanella

A place for lovers and romantics

Both romantics and lovers are drawn to the western tip of the Sorrento Peninsula. You can walk from Termini to Punta, where an Athenian temple once stood, by taking an old Roman road called the Via Minerva. You can take a break in Punta and gaze at Capri in the distance. (round trip: 2:30 hrs, 6.4 km, elevation change: 390 m)

Sorrento

Immortalized by writers, musicians and painters

For more than 2000 years sunsets, orange- and lemon-gardens have brought visitors from around the world to the peninsula on the Gulf of Naples. Legend has it that already Odysseus had been misled by the song of the sirens in ancient Surrentum. When he defied their control after all, they turned into the rock of Li Galli which emerges from the sea near Positano. Writers, musicians and painters have immortalized the place. The tip of the Sorrentine Peninsula lies just five kilometers from Capri, which can be easily reached from the port of Marina Piccola. A trip to Ischia and Procida, the silhouettes of which can be made out on a clear day, takes no time at all by speedboat. The Circumvesuviana train takes visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum or Naples.

Fishing villages along a heavenly coastline

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Nostalgic island paradise in the Gulf of Naples

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World Natural Heritage between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apennines

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Abundance of life in arachaic old town

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