In the Cilento area, admire the prehistoric caves, rocky cliffs and botanic
scenery...
The toponym Palinuro reminds us of the myth of Enea, as this stretch of sea
once frightened sailors passing by due to the numerous shipwrecks, caused by
sudden changes in the weather. Nowadays the coast is still of an
incomparable natural beauty despite man's violence and lack of respect to
the landscapes.
The coast of the promontory Palinuro is reachable by boat, and looking at it
from the sea, it appears as a treasure of natural beauties, caves, bays, and
coves such as the Blue grotto, Cala Fetente, the Bay of Good Sleep and the
Natural Arches.
All the cliffs overlook the sea and depending on the time of day, the color
changes from green to turquoise, and if you look carefully you can see hawks
flying over. The Bones Grotto is really interesting from an archaeological
point of view, you can see the remains of a Pleistocene fauna which the
prehistoric man used to hunt.
Remains of bones broken to reach the rich marrow, is now cemented in the
rocks. Some more remains of rabbles and lithic tools take your imagination
to the hunting scenes occurring in the plains facing the promontory of
Palinuro. Not to miss are the botanic endemisms such as the primrose or the
limonium.
Palinuro
It is situated near the National Park of Cilento and the Nano Valley. Centola
born during the bizantina age with Giustiniano even if its development was
subsequently with the Longobards. Here is possible to visit the Convent of
Cappuccini, the Baronial Palace Rinaldi, the Baronial Palace Lupo, the
Church of Saint Nicholas di Mira and the Bell Tower in the historical
center. In the the southern part of National Park of Cilento there is
Palinuro, a famous seaside resort in the green.
The origins of Palinuro remember the virgilian age that is present in the
Eneide. Between the beauties to see the towers saracene, the Scoglio of the
Rabbit, the Bay del Buon Dormire and the Castle Molpa, the Saint Village
Severino, the Bulgaria Mountain and the Mingardo river. Palinuro, pleasent
resort on the Cilento Coast. The trip on boat, around the promontory, allows
to visit a group of natural caveswith salactites and walls keeping human
bones andpreistoric animals remains.
The legend
wants that this place, has derived the name from the helmsman of Enea,
Palinuro, that unfortunaltely found the death in the clear waters of this
sea. The blue mirror of water of these places, invites us to sail along a
practically uncontaminated coast where is possible to discover jagged
inlets, beaches of white sand, enchanting and exclusive bays and marine
caves. This remote angle of Campania region still preserve exemplas of flora
as her "Primula Palinuri" that grows on the walls rocky of the promontory.
Nowaday it becomes also symbol of the Cilento national park.
With its good organization of tourist structures, it represents one of the
better known summer tourist places of the whole region.
Historical outlines
Colonized
toward the IV century b.C. it saw its history tie by to another promontory
in downfall, the Molpa. After the epidemic of plague in 1656, the decimation
of the population fed the infestation of the criminals, changing in good
measure the popular mottos and the country habits. Palinuro belonged to the
feud of the prince of Centola, up to 700 around. Then the feud became some
family Rinaldi. In 1814 arrived the king of Naples, Murat, with the intent
to inspect the beautiful zone.
To visit
The Saracen towers, the Castle of Molpa, the Church of S. Giuliano, the
Church of S. Maria of Loreto, the Rock-cliff of the Rabbit, Buon Dormire
bay, the Blue Cave, Monks Cave.
Palinuro is
a part of the county district of Centola. This land represents one of those
cases when the fraction of a bigger county takes on more importance than the
main county district itself. In our case, the region is extremely special.
In fact, for the untouched beauty of its territory, Capo Palinuro is
extremely unique. In addition to that, the story and the legends that hover
about this land contribute to perpetuate the attractiveness of these places.
An immense arc of jagged rocks stretches out into the sea as protection of a
bay, which functions as repair and natural port to the sailors. Such bay
must have appeared already in ancient times to the Argonauts, the
Phoenicians and to the Greeks who used to come to these places.
The Capo
preserves signs of very ancient human settlements, with tombs that can be
dated the V century B.C., and with archeological findings that show how the
beauty and the strategic position of this port have favored the settlement
of a Greek colony. The same name of the place recalls the figure of the
Aeneas's helmsman, Palinuro, who fell in love with a gorgeous lady named
Kamaratan and followed her image until the end of the cliffs of the Capo,
which, since then, takes on his name. Palinuro's beauty is widely lavished
in the blazing sunsets, in the shape of the rocky bights, in the natural arc
illuminated in backlight, and in the white beaches that classify this city
as one of the most beautiful of the world.
However, Palinuro is not only sea; the rough and strong nature of the coast
is characterized by the Macchia Mediterranea (the Mediterranean Spot), which
among bushes of mirth, genista and heather, enumerates even a great rarity:
the famous "Primula of Palinuro", an original flower that grows only in this
zone. Moving inside the Mingardo Valley, through the Gola del Diavolo (the
Throat of the Devil), we can find the medieval village of San Severino, the
only village preserved almost intact since it was abandoned because of the
continuous landslides. The castle is dated back to the XI century and it
lived through the events which led the two Normans: Guimondo and Gisulfo in
the fight for the dominion over these districts.
Today, Palinuro relies essentially on its tourist resources sustained by a mite
climate that allows to make use of the sea for ten months a year and by a
wonderful uncontaminated nature where many structures receive visitors with
hotel arrangements, camps, and, only recently, with agritourism which allows
tourists to fully learn about the hospitality of the people in Cilento and
to taste in its place of production: oil, wine and all the natural products
that are at the base of a really healthy Mediterranean diet.
The origins of Palinuro remember the virgilian age that is present in the
Eneide. Between the beauties to see the towers saracene, the Scoglio of the
Rabbit, the Bay del Buon Dormire and the Castle Molpa, the Saint Village
Severino, the Bulgaria Mountain and the Mingardo river. Palinuro, pleasent
resort on the Cilento Coast. The trip on boat, around the promontory, allows
to visit a group of natural caveswith salactites and walls keeping human
bones andpreistoric animals remains.