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After the plain alluvial of the Sele, the landscape primarily introduces him mountainous; but, attracted by the wild beauty of this coast that receives character from the variety of his/her aspects rocky walls that open to the sea with suggestive caverns, woodpeckers, unpredictable jumps, slopes verdant or bare and calm roadsteads we decide to reach the gulf of Policastro following the rout of the sailors.
The Cilento, in fact, and' the summer destination of delicious vacations and the heaven of the recreation boats. It's furnished of all the conforts.
To our shoulders the crest is seen still indented of the mountains of the Amalfi's Coasts, of an intense violet color, and to draw him in front of us the promontory of point Licosa, that he/she closes to south the great gulf of Salerno: the mythical Leucosea or Leucosia, so called by the goddess that assisted Ulisse in one of his dramatic castaways: "la bella dal Tallon di Perla / figlia di Cadauno, Ino chiamata al tempo / che viveva tra i mortali: or nel mar gode / divini amori, e Leucosea si noma".

On the expensive banks to the goddesses, of which we are interesting there, they relive the ancient legends. Here the ship of Giasone landed, with on board the plow that would have transformed the distant earths and Orfeo with its lira. If it didn't disturb us the rhombus of the motors, who knows that we would not be able he anchors to feel his songs. To south Paestums are glimpse as soon as the ruins of Velia, the ancient Elea famous for her school of philosophical. Today the archaeologists are feverishly trying to bring the vestigia of her glorious past to the light. The Eleatica's school, that rose in the VI century a.c. in this part of Great Greece, was characterized by an alive interest for the logical-linguistic problems and on the difficulties that nest in the notions used more commonly. Philosophers as Senofane, Parmenide, Zenone and Melisso belonged you. In that remote times philosophy tried to scientifically explain the myths, but in this earth the myths survive with the strength of the poetry.

The promontory of point Licosa doesn't block us the sight. In the handle to elbow, in front of Salerno, here is Agropoli, from the white houses that descend gradually toward the sea and, castled on a high ground, Castallabate, founded in 1123 by the abbot of Cava Costabile Gentilcolore. This small country has an interesting historical center with capital and picturesque litte raod. On the hill is visible the angioino-Aragonese castle of the XII century. As a lot of regions of the Cilento, in the tall middle-evo Castellabate belonged to the bay of it Extracts, that possessed in the zone well eight monasteries, around which the first inhabited centers rose. The war of the evening, fought among Angioini and Aragonesi, it was lethal for the Cilento, and almost all these towns were destroyed. Giovanna D'Angiò it redelivered later her to the monks but one century, 1414, Gregorio VII gave to king Ladislao of Durazzo, that however it never administered her, in how much, in the meantime, to the Angioini they were succed the Aragonesi ones.

Going toward the sea is Saint Maria of Castellabate, of which, already in 1102 the church existed. The bluff, on which the sea breaks him with spectacular foamy effects, is constituted by an ancient it extracts of blocks. The dock behind point Licosa belongs to St. Mark of Castellabate, in epoch ancient detachment of the fleet of Miseno. The rests of the Roman dock and a building are visible strengthened says "the turret." A necropolis exists, also but from quassù it is hardly identifiable. Also Ogliastro (from oleastrum, wild oil), and Perdifumo (from foot of river), they have origins the ancient ones, having been founded around thousand. With a levers veered we go beyond Point Licosa, important point of reference for the sailors, and we admire one of the widest and beautiful beaches in Italy. intensely A foamy and white crest in the middle of the blue sea tells us, that we are to Acciaroli. That, in fact, is the shoal, that seems mass it waits for for inviting the sailors to the prudence.

Anchors an indentation in the rock, and here is Casalvelino, a pleasant small country set on a high ground, but that it has quickly earned today the street of the sea.

They almost all rise on the hills, the countries of this beautiful region, because up to the beginning of last century it needed to beware themselves of the raids of the Saracens and the pirates; on the sea there were not that few villages of fishermen, and they are these that have received greater impulse to our days. Ascea and Marina of Pisciotta are a reengagement of it.
Anchors an expanse of beach framed by mountains, and here is Centola, an uninhabited country perched on a mountain by the horrid beauty. Toward the sea the landscape does him less sour: it is head Palinuro, the bank where the mythical helmsman of Enea was buried. Despite the here a lot of modern constructions, beaches and promontories spread on the sea the atmosphere of the legend, mixing to the voice of the waves the harmony of the verses of Omero and Virgilio. It almost seems impossible to cohabit with the burden of the tied up daily worries to the tumultuous modern life, because these places know how to talk to the soul with accents and sweet tones. I am consolatory places and obliosi. Another beautiful I bring: and' that of Marina of Camerota, with his Punta degli Infreschi. It now opens in front of us the ample gulf of Policastro but we have to veer for going up again the sourrest zone, but also the most elevated, almost inaccessible, that and' the mountainous territory of Campania.