A pochi passi dalla splendida Paestum, inserita all’interno del Parco Nazionale del Cilento e facente parte della provincia di Salerno, troviamo la bella Trentinara denominata anche “La Terrazza del Cilento”. Trentinara infatti gode di una posizione geografica molto particolare, arroccata su un costone roccioso al di...
Il Giardino Segreto è un giardino tematico ad Airola, in provincia di Benevento, in cui, in giardini separati realizzati con 14000 piante provenienti da tutto il mondo, convivono quasi 400 animali di ogni razza ed ogni latitudine. Il Giardino Segreto di Airola è il progetto di un architetto paesaggista. Il suo...
Sono davvero tante le aree protette e i parchi regionali della Campania, ma non tutti in provincia di Napoli naturalmente. Anche la provincia di Caserta ha il suo: si tratta del Parco Regionale Roccamonfina e Foce Garigliano. Istituito nel 1993, questo Parco ha tuttavia sede a Sessa Aurunca che, insieme a Teano, fa...
Do not hope to do shopping in shops that show handcrafted products off, in Vallo di Diano the sole opportunity is tracking down the few surviving laboratories or talking to the elderly, who during the summer sit down at the front of the door of their houses and intertwine baskets, carve bowl or embroider. In Padula,...
Faraway from the noises of the earthly life, secluded on Mount Cervati, in the territory of Sanza, the house of the Archconfraternity of Saint Mary of the Snow rises up. The shrine of Sanza, built around the X century, as it can be read in an epigraph conserved there, has a plant compliant with the period of building:...
In Gesualdo, the Church of the Holy Rosary rises impressive on a square on the side of the castle. From its bell tower, at a height of 25 meters, the traditional ‘Flight of the Angel’ is celebrated. The church, with respective Dominican Monastery, was started by the prince Carlo Gesualdo, who nevertheless succeeded...
In the heart of the Apennine of Campania, between the provinces of Avellino and Salerno, there is a geographical area of high strategic importance from the natural and territorial point of view: it is the Regional Park of the Monti Picentini. This park is a protected natural area instituted in 1995 and takes its name...
The hamlet of Campolattaro is included in the Comunità Montana del Titerno e dell’Alto Tammaro. The name Campolattaro comes from the toponym ‘Campuguttari’, which means ‘Field of Walthario’, proper name used by the Lombards. Therefore, the Lombard origin attests the antiquity of the hamlet. The transformation of the...
Fragneto L’Abate is a little village in province of Benevento characterized by the presence of oak woods. Exactly from these trees (in Italian called ‘farnia’), it derives the name ‘Farnitum’, become then in Italian ‘farnito’ and later ‘Fragneto’. The expression ‘Abatis’, that is of the abbot, was surely added to...
The visit to the Caves of Pertosa is done on a raft that from the entrance leads to the caves with picturesque names, like the Arm of the Wonders, with the falls of stalactites that intertwine with the columns of stalagmites, or the Throne Room, with a formation that looks like a royal throne. Getting in the raft, the...
