Tourist routes for Holiday in Campania Italy Guide Naples, Ischia, Capri and Amalfi Coast
Tourist routes for Holiday in Campania Guide, Naples, Ischia, Capri and Amalfi Coast.
THE REGION: A millenarian history, that one of the Campania, made of many dominations, between the plains and the coasts, the mounts and the valleys. From the art to archaeology: the five provinces of the Campania conserve clearly inside the mystery of the traces of the passage of those populations, the handmade peaces that they realized and the monuments that they built up. And on the other hand, sandy beaches equipped and confortable and bays still uncontaminated for who is in search of relax and crystalline sea. From the islands of the Golf of Naples to the Coast, to the domizio shoreline, the Cilento, the Campania with its hundreds kilometres of coast can satisfy whichever requirement or preference. In order to pass an pleasant vacation or a weekend you will be able to count on the numerous hotels, pensions, holiday farms, residence, restaurants, scattered on the whole territory. In whichever period you will be able to search offers, last minute, packages in order to conjugate vacation and convenience.
Holiday in Campania, Naples, Ischia, Capri and Amalfi Coast
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
The reggia of Caserta
The archaeological zones of Pompei, Ercolano and Paestum
The exhibition of theChristmas cribs of Naples
The ceramics of Capodimonte
TOURIST RESOURCES:
Naples
In 1400 Naples was without doubt the European chapital for its intellectual vivacity, today has lost that importance, but of it has surely maintained the fascination thanks also to recent and imposing works of restoration that has donated the city the ancient beauty. No vacation made in Campania can neglect Naples and than leave from here in order to discover the naturalistic and cultural beauties, beginning from the Sorrentina coast.
COASTAL AMALFITANA AND SORRENTINA
The amalfitan and sorrentin coast constitute an obligatory point for anyone who visits Campania and is on the search of sun and sea, but also for who is hunting precious historical points. Studded from a myriad of characteristic small villages, defended on the cliffs,offers to you points from which you can admire an unique landscape. Small beaches between wonderful calette, are the landscape of the Sorrento area, call also earth of the Mermaid, because of the legends and the history that cover these territories.
Sorrento (NA)
Sorrento is one of the most important tourist centers of the region. The city is carefully lay down on a high coast lening out on the sea ,that gives to the visitors a splendid sight of the Golf of Naples. Sorrento has an ancient tradition of hospitality and wellcome. From ancient times many travellers stopped themselves in this place in order to enjoy the pleasures of the sea and the good table. It’s famous all over the world for the production of oranges and lemons. The wisdom of the local chefs and the excellent quality of the aliments available in this area (vegetables, pasta, mozzarella cheeses and fish) have concurred that Sorrento become a true and own capital of the Mediterranean taste .
Amalfi (SA)
Amalfi is opened wide on the sea and the whole city is like a great balcony under a dazzling sun. To its shoulders, but at short distance from the coast, there are the Lattari mounts. The country opens to the eyes of the visitors like a great manger all decorated of plants, orange and olive trees ,degrading and bloomed groves with gardens that arrive until the riverside.
Ravello (SA)
Ravello, the gem of the amalfitan half island in province of Salerno, dominates, like a true just terrace opened on the sea, the cities of Minori and Maiori. Its beauty was catched from Boccaccio in the “Decameron” and from William Turner in the burlaps whose sketches are exposed today to the Tate Gallery of London.
Capri (NA)
Capri, the blue island, is famous all over the world for the Faraglioni, enormous rocks that dominate one of the more evocative parts of the coast of Capri. The island, from the times of the ancient romans, is one of the more exclusive localities. The emperor Tiberio built his villa here, whose ruins are still today to see. From this island, encircled from the sea, is obtained a wine appreciate for its taste and its scents all over the world. The sea of Capri has an intense blue color and when it penetrates in some coastal coves, like the Blue Cove, it gives life to a splendid natural show. In summer the night life is extremely pleasant between fashionable bars and exclusive discotheques. On the island you will find exclusive Hotels and restaurants.
Ischia Island
Between the beautifulest islands of the Golf of Naples, Ischia is rich of history and culture. It’s extended, so that it comprises various towns, everyone with an own peculiarity (Barano, Casamicciola, Forio, Ischia, Lacco Ameno, Sant' Angelo). Not to forget, then, the numerous thermal localities, goal of vacations to the standard of health and well-being. In the several thermal centers there are all types of therapies: idropinica, baths, mud, inhalations, humages, aesthetic and therapeutic massages, idromassage, irrigations, showers, saune, stoves,exudatori coves, sands-blasting, heliotherapy. Also the aesthetic cures (wrinkle-preventing, anticouperose treatments, anticellulitises us, rassodanti and antistress, ionoforesi, shiatzu, reiki, peeling, vapozono and others) These are practiced are in the thermal centers and in many connected hotels.
THE CILENTO
The Cilento is bathed from a limpid and cleaned sea, that exalts to the maximum the natural beauties, like wonderful towns put into an intact and uncontaminated nature. The rigorous Mediterranean spot make place to important tourist centers, which have, however maintained a good equilibrium with the natural environment. Palinuro and Castellabate are the Queens of the Cilento, but good points of departure in order to discover the Cilento are also Ogliastro and Marina di Camerota. The Cilento occupies approximately eighty kilometers of coast that offer to the tourist the best made possible vacation from a wonderful sea and incontaminated landscapes.
Marina di Camerota (SA)
Camerota is a wonderful seaside resort (blue flag given for the second year in continuation) dipped in the National Park of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano.
Its coast has sandy beaches, like that one of Mingardo, torrential, like those of Saint Domenico, Lenticelle and Pozzallo and still coast of erosion as that at Porticello and Arconte all spaced out from calette, towers and coves.
Castellabate (SA)
The medieval village of Castellabate in province of Salerno rose around to a massive castle build to defense the city on order of Abbot of Cava. The people called the fortress “Castle of Abbot” from which drift the today’s name.
Capaccio - Paestum (SA)
Capaccio, in province of Salerno, offers to the tourist, in the fraction of Paestum, an archaeological patrimony between the more important of Italy on a very extended area. The National Archaeological Museum collects the recovered valuable material from the city, the outskirts necropolis and the Sanctuary of Hera Argiva. Between the most significant points, the metope of terracotta of the Heraion of foce Sele, the “Tomba of the Diver”, dated from its discoverer to the 480 a.C., one of the few archaic or classic Greek painting examples.
From the same value is also its ambiental patrimony : the seaside pine forest along the beach of Capaccio ,which is a well known tourist resort with hotels, villages, restaurants.
Ogliastro Marina (SA)
Ogliastro is a wonderful resort that rises on the coast of Cilento in the province of Salerno. Its presentr name derives from the plenty secular olive trees, from which they gain the good local oil. Ideal place for a vacation to the sea ,offers also places of architectonic interest like the church of Saint Nazario in the small village of Finocchio, the convent of Saint Leonardo and the Gentilizzi palace.
Palinuro (SA)
To the town of Centola belong approximately 10 kilometers of coast. The most famous part of this is Capo Palinuro. The coves of the town of Centola are true and own miracles of architecture, developed because of the seismic activity of which this area is strongly interested. In summer, in the period that goes from end of July to beginning August, in the port of Palinuro there is, in an evocative choreography of the landscape, a festival where music and typical taste of the Mediterranean kitchen are melted in order to offer to the tourist most pleasant evenings.
CASERTA
The origins of Caserta are still uncertain: for some it was founded from the Sanniti, for others from the Romans. The most diffused thesis say that the Longobardi di Capua to conquest it in the XIII century. In the Middle Ages, the city passed under the dominion of the Capua. But it is in 1800,when finished the Royal Palace which becames a real jewel of the city, that Caserta assumed a particular importance.
The Borbonian Palace of the city of Caserta is a fundamental stage of the routes of art. It was built from 1752 to 1774 and it has the Vanvitelliano Museum and the royal apartments. The Reggia of Caserta was planned from the architect Luigi Vanvitelli, charged from Carl III of Borbone. In the intentions of Vanvitelli, the Park of the Reggia must have the same importance of the Palace. The architect planned therefore a tree-lined avenue, that from the Reggia to the cascade measured three kilometers, flanked from holm-ok, with immense fields encircled from small wood, parterre and plants of several essences ,designed to squared flower-beds and water mirrors. The Reggia and the Park are between the beautifulst testimonies of the architecture of end seven hundred.
EVENTS
March - May - Reggia of Caserta - the Night of the Kings
April - June – époque Car and bike race to Minori
May - October - Pompei by night
25 March - 4 june - Naples - Tiziano Exhibition and the court portrait of the 1500's
July - Ischia - international Festival of Tango Argentino
July - GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL FOR BOYS
Summer - Musical Festival of Ravello
August - Festivity of the Gigli di Bruciano (the Gigli are festivity cars in wood, high 25 meters, shaped to an obelisk and are transported along a city rout " by 128 men, called the cullatori, accompanied by musical bands. There are eight Gigli to Brusciano and each belongs to a committee, primer form of ancient corporations).
TYPICAL PLATES:
Pizza: made of white flour, salt, water, leavens of beer, olive oil, various condiments
Spaghetti with tomatoes: Spaghetti with a red salsa with tomato peaces,cooked in garlic or onions. Fish in guazzetto: soup of various fish with baked bread slices of bread
Fried fish plate
Pastiera: Cake of smooth paste field with ricotta chees, cooked grain and candied fruits
Limoncello: Liqueur made up of lemon peel.
For your Holidays choose the Hotel in Campania
THE REGION: A millenarian history, that one of the Campania, made of many dominations, between the plains and the coasts, the mounts and the valleys. From the art to archaeology: the five provinces of the Campania conserve clearly inside the mystery of the traces of the passage of those populations, the handmade peaces that they realized and the monuments that they built up. And on the other hand, sandy beaches equipped and confortable and bays still uncontaminated for who is in search of relax and crystalline sea. From the islands of the Golf of Naples to the Coast, to the domizio shoreline, the Cilento, the Campania with its hundreds kilometres of coast can satisfy whichever requirement or preference. In order to pass an pleasant vacation or a weekend you will be able to count on the numerous hotels, pensions, holiday farms, residence, restaurants, scattered on the whole territory. In whichever period you will be able to search offers, last minute, packages in order to conjugate vacation and convenience.
Holiday in Campania, Naples, Ischia, Capri and Amalfi Coast
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
The reggia of Caserta
The archaeological zones of Pompei, Ercolano and Paestum
The exhibition of theChristmas cribs of Naples
The ceramics of Capodimonte
TOURIST RESOURCES:
Naples
In 1400 Naples was without doubt the European chapital for its intellectual vivacity, today has lost that importance, but of it has surely maintained the fascination thanks also to recent and imposing works of restoration that has donated the city the ancient beauty. No vacation made in Campania can neglect Naples and than leave from here in order to discover the naturalistic and cultural beauties, beginning from the Sorrentina coast.
COASTAL AMALFITANA AND SORRENTINA
The amalfitan and sorrentin coast constitute an obligatory point for anyone who visits Campania and is on the search of sun and sea, but also for who is hunting precious historical points. Studded from a myriad of characteristic small villages, defended on the cliffs,offers to you points from which you can admire an unique landscape. Small beaches between wonderful calette, are the landscape of the Sorrento area, call also earth of the Mermaid, because of the legends and the history that cover these territories.
Sorrento (NA)
Sorrento is one of the most important tourist centers of the region. The city is carefully lay down on a high coast lening out on the sea ,that gives to the visitors a splendid sight of the Golf of Naples. Sorrento has an ancient tradition of hospitality and wellcome. From ancient times many travellers stopped themselves in this place in order to enjoy the pleasures of the sea and the good table. It’s famous all over the world for the production of oranges and lemons. The wisdom of the local chefs and the excellent quality of the aliments available in this area (vegetables, pasta, mozzarella cheeses and fish) have concurred that Sorrento become a true and own capital of the Mediterranean taste .
Amalfi (SA)
Amalfi is opened wide on the sea and the whole city is like a great balcony under a dazzling sun. To its shoulders, but at short distance from the coast, there are the Lattari mounts. The country opens to the eyes of the visitors like a great manger all decorated of plants, orange and olive trees ,degrading and bloomed groves with gardens that arrive until the riverside.
Ravello (SA)
Ravello, the gem of the amalfitan half island in province of Salerno, dominates, like a true just terrace opened on the sea, the cities of Minori and Maiori. Its beauty was catched from Boccaccio in the “Decameron” and from William Turner in the burlaps whose sketches are exposed today to the Tate Gallery of London.
Capri (NA)
Capri, the blue island, is famous all over the world for the Faraglioni, enormous rocks that dominate one of the more evocative parts of the coast of Capri. The island, from the times of the ancient romans, is one of the more exclusive localities. The emperor Tiberio built his villa here, whose ruins are still today to see. From this island, encircled from the sea, is obtained a wine appreciate for its taste and its scents all over the world. The sea of Capri has an intense blue color and when it penetrates in some coastal coves, like the Blue Cove, it gives life to a splendid natural show. In summer the night life is extremely pleasant between fashionable bars and exclusive discotheques. On the island you will find exclusive Hotels and restaurants.
Ischia Island
Between the beautifulest islands of the Golf of Naples, Ischia is rich of history and culture. It’s extended, so that it comprises various towns, everyone with an own peculiarity (Barano, Casamicciola, Forio, Ischia, Lacco Ameno, Sant' Angelo). Not to forget, then, the numerous thermal localities, goal of vacations to the standard of health and well-being. In the several thermal centers there are all types of therapies: idropinica, baths, mud, inhalations, humages, aesthetic and therapeutic massages, idromassage, irrigations, showers, saune, stoves,exudatori coves, sands-blasting, heliotherapy. Also the aesthetic cures (wrinkle-preventing, anticouperose treatments, anticellulitises us, rassodanti and antistress, ionoforesi, shiatzu, reiki, peeling, vapozono and others) These are practiced are in the thermal centers and in many connected hotels.
THE CILENTO
The Cilento is bathed from a limpid and cleaned sea, that exalts to the maximum the natural beauties, like wonderful towns put into an intact and uncontaminated nature. The rigorous Mediterranean spot make place to important tourist centers, which have, however maintained a good equilibrium with the natural environment. Palinuro and Castellabate are the Queens of the Cilento, but good points of departure in order to discover the Cilento are also Ogliastro and Marina di Camerota. The Cilento occupies approximately eighty kilometers of coast that offer to the tourist the best made possible vacation from a wonderful sea and incontaminated landscapes.
Marina di Camerota (SA)
Camerota is a wonderful seaside resort (blue flag given for the second year in continuation) dipped in the National Park of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano.
Its coast has sandy beaches, like that one of Mingardo, torrential, like those of Saint Domenico, Lenticelle and Pozzallo and still coast of erosion as that at Porticello and Arconte all spaced out from calette, towers and coves.
Castellabate (SA)
The medieval village of Castellabate in province of Salerno rose around to a massive castle build to defense the city on order of Abbot of Cava. The people called the fortress “Castle of Abbot” from which drift the today’s name.
Capaccio - Paestum (SA)
Capaccio, in province of Salerno, offers to the tourist, in the fraction of Paestum, an archaeological patrimony between the more important of Italy on a very extended area. The National Archaeological Museum collects the recovered valuable material from the city, the outskirts necropolis and the Sanctuary of Hera Argiva. Between the most significant points, the metope of terracotta of the Heraion of foce Sele, the “Tomba of the Diver”, dated from its discoverer to the 480 a.C., one of the few archaic or classic Greek painting examples.
From the same value is also its ambiental patrimony : the seaside pine forest along the beach of Capaccio ,which is a well known tourist resort with hotels, villages, restaurants.
Ogliastro Marina (SA)
Ogliastro is a wonderful resort that rises on the coast of Cilento in the province of Salerno. Its presentr name derives from the plenty secular olive trees, from which they gain the good local oil. Ideal place for a vacation to the sea ,offers also places of architectonic interest like the church of Saint Nazario in the small village of Finocchio, the convent of Saint Leonardo and the Gentilizzi palace.
Palinuro (SA)
To the town of Centola belong approximately 10 kilometers of coast. The most famous part of this is Capo Palinuro. The coves of the town of Centola are true and own miracles of architecture, developed because of the seismic activity of which this area is strongly interested. In summer, in the period that goes from end of July to beginning August, in the port of Palinuro there is, in an evocative choreography of the landscape, a festival where music and typical taste of the Mediterranean kitchen are melted in order to offer to the tourist most pleasant evenings.
CASERTA
The origins of Caserta are still uncertain: for some it was founded from the Sanniti, for others from the Romans. The most diffused thesis say that the Longobardi di Capua to conquest it in the XIII century. In the Middle Ages, the city passed under the dominion of the Capua. But it is in 1800,when finished the Royal Palace which becames a real jewel of the city, that Caserta assumed a particular importance.
The Borbonian Palace of the city of Caserta is a fundamental stage of the routes of art. It was built from 1752 to 1774 and it has the Vanvitelliano Museum and the royal apartments. The Reggia of Caserta was planned from the architect Luigi Vanvitelli, charged from Carl III of Borbone. In the intentions of Vanvitelli, the Park of the Reggia must have the same importance of the Palace. The architect planned therefore a tree-lined avenue, that from the Reggia to the cascade measured three kilometers, flanked from holm-ok, with immense fields encircled from small wood, parterre and plants of several essences ,designed to squared flower-beds and water mirrors. The Reggia and the Park are between the beautifulst testimonies of the architecture of end seven hundred.
EVENTS
March - May - Reggia of Caserta - the Night of the Kings
April - June – époque Car and bike race to Minori
May - October - Pompei by night
25 March - 4 june - Naples - Tiziano Exhibition and the court portrait of the 1500's
July - Ischia - international Festival of Tango Argentino
July - GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL FOR BOYS
Summer - Musical Festival of Ravello
August - Festivity of the Gigli di Bruciano (the Gigli are festivity cars in wood, high 25 meters, shaped to an obelisk and are transported along a city rout " by 128 men, called the cullatori, accompanied by musical bands. There are eight Gigli to Brusciano and each belongs to a committee, primer form of ancient corporations).
TYPICAL PLATES:
Pizza: made of white flour, salt, water, leavens of beer, olive oil, various condiments
Spaghetti with tomatoes: Spaghetti with a red salsa with tomato peaces,cooked in garlic or onions. Fish in guazzetto: soup of various fish with baked bread slices of bread
Fried fish plate
Pastiera: Cake of smooth paste field with ricotta chees, cooked grain and candied fruits
Limoncello: Liqueur made up of lemon peel.
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