Giungano

The village is set 300 m above the sea level. It develops in a semicircle on the side of the mountain that overlooks the Paestum plain. The panorama shifts from the valley to the sea, in a land where man and nature live side by side in perfect harmony. Giungano is surrounded by Mediterranean scrub that makes it an uncontaminated and protected area.

Nature-lovers can enjoy the beauty of Elci wood, 30 hectares of Mediterranean scrub where Arbutus unedo (known also as “Strawberrie tree” or “Cane apple”), a plant in danger of extinction, is predominant.
Recently the trail that connect Giungano to Trentinara has been reactivated – it is an easy-level hiking, 400 m of incline that takes you to the most spectacular panoramic point of Cilento.

The Tremonti river crosses the territory of Trentinara, Giungano and Capaccio; the name means “three mountains” because it flows among three mountains : Mount Catenna, Mount Sottano and Mount Soprano. The gorge, according to Plutarch, was theatre of the Servile war of Spartacus’ gladiators against the Roman Republic in 71 BC.
In 1940 inside Tremonti’s gorge, six Roman graves and fragments of pottery of the Iron Age have been found.
Tremonti gorge is spectacular: the river flows over Mount Catenna ridge in a wonderful waterfall; then it continues its winding course surrounded by luxuriant vegetation.

Around the waterfall there is the “Lovers’ Temple” (Tempio degli Innamorati)near the old bridge named “Devil’s Bridge” (Ponte del Diavolo). Downriver, besides various trails there is a series of caves: the most popular is “San Michele” cave.