Focus On

Serramezzana is the smallest town of the Cilento National Park, with only 300 inhabitants. Tourists who are looking for a day full of traditions, stories, folk legends, flavours and smells of old times, should spend their time in this small town, set near seaside town such as Acciaroli, Pioppi, Agropoli, Castellabate and Casal Velino.   The small village, perched on the [...]

Novi Velia is a small medieval village that boasts a rich heritage of art and antiquities. It is located on a hill covered with centuries-old olive trees, nestled at the foot of Mount Gelbison (in depth), rich in thick woods of chestnut and beech trees and spring waters.   Novi's [...]

The name Futani may derive from the Greek futon, meaning plant, forest, probably due to the dense woods that once covered the area where the town developed. In the 18th century, indeed, the historian Antonini describes:just over half a mile from the [...]

The Nature Reserve Foce Sele hosts the WWF oasis of Persano: it is a reservoir built along the Sele in 1934. Since 1981 the whole area [...]

CAVE OF THE WATERAn easy-level hiking trail along the Masseta coast.   We suggest you to park the car near the Scario lighthouse and then enter the paved [...]

Monte StellaHeight: 1131 m above sea level   Monte Stella overlooks a vast panorama, up to the sea. On its slopes there are the municipalities of Stella Cilento, Sessa Cilento, Omignano, San Mauro Cilento,  Pollica (with Acciaroli and Pioppi) and Serramezzana.   The top of the mountain is home to [...]

The Museo Diocesano of Vallo della Lucania has a collection of sacred art from all the churches of the territory. Bishop Biagio D'Agostino got started the collection in the years 1960s-1970s; then it was enlarged in the 1980s by Bishop Giuseppe Casale who, [...]

Paleontological museum of Magliano VetereThe Museum has four exhibition rooms whose collections gradually introduce the visitor to the Earth science, starting from the origin of the universe.   The major geodynamic processes of the planet, the formation of mountain chains, such as the Apennines, are explained through observation of rocks, tracing [...]

BADIA OF SANTA MARIA OF PATTANOThe badia of Pattano is the best preserved Italo-Albanian monastery of Southern Italy. The structure rises 2 km far from Vallo [...]

Monte StellaHeight: 1131 m above sea level   Monte Stella overlooks a vast panorama, up to the sea. On its slopes there are the municipalities of Stella Cilento, Sessa Cilento, Omignano, San Mauro Cilento,  Pollica (with Acciaroli and Pioppi) and Serramezzana.   The top of the mountain is home to [...]

BAPTISTERY OF SAN GIOVANNI IN FONTEIn the hamlet Fonti of Padula rises one of the most beautiful monuments of the Christian world: the baptistery of San [...]

Teggiano – ancient name “Diano”- (637 m s.l.m. and 8,348 inhabitants) is, among the towns of the province of Salerno, the one that has preserved its [...]