But how beautiful it is to walk through them streets overlooking the sea and enjoy it show from the camper window? A tour between villages of Campania it's what you need to leave the greyness of the city and fill up on the sun. Mostly in spring when the days get longer and the chances of rain decrease. There Campania it's not just the sea. His too hinterland, if you know where to go, turns out to be fascinating. Just think about the Pertosa Caves.
Pollica, the town of the Mediterranean Diet, a world heritage site
From Piazza della Cortiglia a staircase goes up towards the castle of the Capano princes who inhabited it for about four centuries, until 1795. After passing the entrance surmounted by the family coat of arms indicating the date of construction (1290), you arrive in a vast courtyard with faded and fragmented frescoes. Like the one that portrays him exchange of the apple of Adam and Eve with the woman the only figure left visible. A plaque reminds us that this is where the headquarters are located Mediterranean diet recognized intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO. Recognition arrived with the valorization of the territory implemented by the mayor Angelo Vassallo, killed in an attack in 2010.
Camper stop: 18 kilometers from Pollica there is thefarmhouse The two mulberry trees
Piano Vetrale, the painted village
Since the end of the seventies Glass Plane, fraction of Orria of just two hundred and seventy souls, is a open-air museum. Artists from all over the world have taken turns to create works, with most varied techniques and styles, on the external facades and doors of the houses. They tell the story peasant life and popular traditions of the village which gave birth to the artist Paolo De Matteis (one of Luca Giordano's best students) to whom one of the black and white murals is dedicated.
Camper stop: half an hour's drive away is the farmhouse La Petrosa
Morigerati, walking between caves and waterfalls
The coastal towns of Cilento, Palinuro e Marina di Camerota (with jewels Cape Palinuro e Infreschi Bay) offer some of the most evocative marine sceneries of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Yet not many know that their hinterland reveals a landscape of rare beauty. It is no coincidence that it was also included in the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park. A handful of kilometers from Gulf of Policastro Morigerati stands, clinging to a rocky spur with a network of alleys and small squares that converges towards the ancient church of San Demetrio. The country hosts theBussento Cave Oasis managed by the WWF in agreement with the Municipality, established in 1985.
A excursion can give great satisfaction: from the visitor center, along a stone-paved mule track, you arrive at the entrance to the cave of the Bussento river. Streams with springs, waterfalls and even a ancient mill restored and functioning, they make up the context of the park, which requires a visit of about a couple of hours. It is worth visiting ethnographic museum with the collection of agricultural tools, fabrics, sound recordings and photographs collected since the 1960s by the sisters Clorinda and Modestina Florenzano, heirs of the baronial palace.
Camper stop: about 15 kilometers away is the Camping Acapulco
Castellabbate, welcome to the south!
Who doesn't remember the raids of Claudio Bisio among the alleys of this splendid village overlooking the sea? A postal employee from the north is called to the office of a small town in the Campania. The film "Welcome to the South" has brought great fame to this location which is wonderful at any time of the year. Even just for theoverlooking the sea which alone is worth the trip. From here we move to see the beautiful Agropoli and temples of Paestum.
Camper stop: camper area The green corner
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Roccamonfina, the holiday is active
- trekking enthusiasts e mountain bike they can mark in the diary i sentieri that unravel around roccamonfina, a small village that stands in the mouth of a ancient extinct volcano. The paths through the woods, flanked by centuries-old chestnut trees where dormice, owls and nuthatches find refuge, they touch sites of historical interest. Like them megalithic walls from the Roman era of the Mount Frascara, nevere, (buildings used in ancient times to store ice), and the Santurio of the Madonna dei Lattani.
Camper stop: about 25 kilometers away is the rest area Baia Domizia.
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To some villages in Campania, in particular the most interesting places in the province of Caserta, an extensive service is dedicated in the March issue of PleinAir.
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