To look for caves:
The heights and the coasts of Campania are full of caves: from this point of view the karst-territory offers true emotion. The most spectacular caves are the ones of Castelcivita, on the outs kirts of the bridge over the Calore River, and mostly the caves of Pertosa, which are located in the south, between Salerno and Atena Lucana, at the beginning of the Vallo di Diano and are also named Angelo’s Caves, or San Michele’s Caves. The sight seeing starts from a little lake, whose water-level is enked by a dyke, a board a raft. Among stalactites hanging from the ceiling, you’ll travel back wards to the Neolithic, when the first the habitants of this area built here the palafittes. Successively, you’ll land in the first hall where a spectacular waterfall roars. Then the sight seeing proposes more emotions in the Hall of Our Lady: this cavity is so named because of the votive statue of the Virgin Mary, which is surrounded by thin stalactites and stalagmites looking like candles.
 
Padula
This name is associated with the famous Certosa of San Lorenzo. The construction of the Certosa began on 1.306 and finished at the beginning of 1.800: infact this complex is one of the most monumental buildings in the South of Italy and covers 5 hectares. Round the Main Cloister, in 50ies the Archaelogical Museum of the West Lucania was placed.
 
Paestum
The town was founded by the colonists of sibari around the 600 B.C.and was named Posidonia. When the town fell in to the Lucan’s hands, its name turned to Poistum and since 273 B.C., to Paestum. The discovery of the famous ruins is due to the re-opening of the neglected Bourbon road in the Plane of Sele River. After one century infact the town and sourrounding area depopulated as the ground became swamty. At the beginning of the Middle ages, Paestum was reduced small a community; the finishing stroke was inflicted by the raids of the Saracens: the last on habitants moved toward the Alburni Mountains and founded Capaccio. Besides the temples and the urban structures, you should visit the Museum, in which are preserved, the painted marbleslab of the Tomb of the Diver and some ornaments of the Sanctuary of Hera Argiva.
 
Teggiano
The town was founded on a fortified hill, on which roses Norman castle. From the IV century up 1862 the town was called Diano: this is still the name of the valley which is crossed by the Tanagro River and the ancient Via Populia and is enclosed among the mountains of Cilento and Maddalena. After the plots of the Barons, the castle was a theatre of the victorious resistance of Antonello San Severino against the Aragoneses. After 1806 the castle wass sold to 2 local families; it was reopened to the public in 1996 by Macchiaroli and now it comprises a little Museum. In a short time will founded on Antiquarium.
 
Velia
The first name of this town was Yele, but it was also named Elea and was the seat of the famous Eleatic school in which Parmenides and Zeno learnt. It was a Phocaean colony founded in 540 B.C. which retained the use of the Grecian language also during the Roman Empire and maintained good relation with Marseilles. Besides the ruins of the town, you can visit the excavations which began in the 20ies and are atill going on. There are al ready important discoveries, like the Porta Rosa, one of the most significant urben gates in the Magna Grecia.
 
San Severino di Centola
At a fin kilometres from Marina di Camerota, from the grey and pink rocks overhanging the valley of the Mingardo River, rises on ancient Medieval Village like magic: it’s San Severino di Centola. This village was left 35 years ago, when the in habitants removed to the plain. But in the Middle Age the village had a fundamental strategic significance, as testifird by the powerful castle.
 
karte of the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano.

 
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