Accomodation Campania: Park and Cilento are two separate entities.

The Cilento park: accomodation in Campania

Few really know the Cilento, others confuse him/it, perhaps because you/he/she has never had precise confinements. Still less they know the Park of the Cilento, over 100.000 hectares from the coast tirrenicas up to the feet of the Appennino live - lucano.

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Accomodation Campania: The Cilento introduces him to a careful traveller as an environment in which the border among myth, history and landscape is dissolved and he confuses. If the traveller comes from the sea the beaches and the bluffs, the cliffs and the caves they confuse him with the green of the ulivis and the stain, if instead you/he/she arrives in train or in auto, you/he/she enters through small wedged suburbs the holds river valleys, or coasting along the beaches of Paestum.

Today the myths still confuse him with the certainties of the history to give soul and nobility to an exceptional, various and animated landscape: Palinuro and Enea, Ercole and the Vastasis (giants of the mountain of the Stella), the archangel Michael and the dolmens of St. Mauro Cilento, the siren Leucosia, buried, it tells him near Castellabate.

The same toponimo is wound in the mystery. Object of contrasted philological analysis, the most accredited theses also reach to doubt the more accorsata interpretation of Cilento = cis-Alentum '' to the of here of the Alento '', since someone advances the hypothesis that the name Cilento derives from the Byzantine Greek Cyr-Alynthos '' city that dominates the Alento ''. In every case a world seen by a precise part of the Alento, that of whom from Rome or from it Extracts de' Tirreni was from here of the Alento, to mean that that was the border.

The Cilento, denominated Enotria by Erodoto, Plinio and Stephen of Bisanzio, it was busy from the Lucanis in the hilly and mountainous part; The coast was interested instead in the Greek colonization, of which Posidonia / Paestum and Elea / Velia have handed down meaningful testimonies. While Velia will withstand the pressure lucana, Paestum it will suffer the occupation and the inculturamento of it. With the Roman conquest the south territory of the Sele, distinguished from Campania, and denominated Lucania, you/he/she was included in the tertia regal augustea. The passage of the Visigothic ones of Alarico and the Vandals of Genserico they got negative effects on the population and on the activities, partly I taken back under the sovereign ostrogotis. The Byzantines and the Saracens created in the Cilento of the heads of bridge to oppose the longobardis, that assured the possession at the end. In modern epoch the Cilento has reassumed the terms of the amplest gastaldato longobardo of Lucania, with an inclusive territory among the river north Sele, the displuviale of the Go him/it of Give to east, the rivers Casaletto and south Bussento, the west Tyrrhenian.