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SITUATED VERY CLOSE TO THE COAST, ON THE SOUTHERN
STRETCH OF THE GULF OF SALERNO, PAESTUM WAS
FOUNDED BY THE SYBARITES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
SIXTH CENTURY BC, ON A FERTILE, BUT SWAMPY PLAIN,
IN THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE RIVER
SILARUS, NAVIGABLE AT THAT TIME.
WITH 3 SUPERB DORIC TEMPLES, COMPARABLE FOR THEIR
STATE OF PRESERVATION, ONLY TO THE THESEION IN
ATHENS, AND TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER INNUMERABLE
REMAINS OF ITS ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY, MANY
DISPLAYED IN THE LOCAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM,
PAESTUM IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS IN ITALY AND WITHOUT DOUBT
THE MOST IMPORTANT GREEK SITE IN THE WEST.
THE HOTEL IS LOCATED 66 KM FROM MAIORI.
MAIORI IS A FASCINATING TOWN LOCATED ON THE
SALERNO COAST, AT THE OUTLET OF THE TRAMONTI
VALLEY.
ACCORDING TO TRADITION, IT WAS FOUNDED BY THE
ETRUSCANS WHO NAMED IT REGINNA BUT LATER IT WAS
CALLED MAIORI TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM THE NEARBY
MINORI, REGINNA MINOR.
MAIORI TODAY IS A MODERN, DYNAMIC TOWN, BOASTING
MUCH WELL EQUIPPED ACCOMMODATIONS, WHICH MAKES IT
ONE OF THE BUSIEST TOURIST RESORTS ON THE AMALFI
COAST.
IT IS ALSO WELL KNOWN FOR ITS FLOURISHING LEMON
PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING.
MAIORI CONSERVES IMPORTANT MONUMENTS, AMONG THEM
THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA A MARE, THE SANCTUARY
OF SANTA MARIA DELLE GRAZIE AND JUST OUT OF TOWN,
THE MEDIEVAL ABBEY OF SANTA MARIA DE OLEARIA.
THE HOTEL IS LOCATED 74 KM FROM AMALFI.
ON ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS STRETCHES OF THE
SALERNO COASTLINE, IN A SPLENDID PANORAMIC
POSITION, STANDS AMALFI, ONE OF THE MOST
FASCINATING TOWNS IN THE CAMPANIA REGION AND OF
ITALY AS A WHOLE.
THE TOWN PRESERVES IMPORTANT EVIDENCE OF ITS
PRESTIGIOUS PAST THE CATHEDRAL, DEDICATED TO ST.
ANDREW, DOMINATING THE SQUARE OF THE SAME NAME
FROM ABOVE STEEP STEPS. THE PARADISE CLOISTER, A
DELIGHTFUL CONSTRUCTION IN ARABIAN-STYLE DATING
TO THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. AND THE RUINS OF THE
ARSENAL OF THE REPUBLIC, TWO NAVES COVERED WITH A
POINTED ARCHED TRANSEPT WHERE, IN THE CITY*S
PERIOD OF GREATEST SPLENDOR, THE FASTEST AND
LARGEST GALLEYS OF THE AGE WERE BUILT.
THE IMPOSING NATURE OF THESE BUILDINGS, THE
FASCINATION OF TYPICALLY MEDITERRANEAN
ARCHITECTURE, MADE UP OF MAZY LANES AND
CHARACTERISTIC WHITE HOUSES PILED ONE UPON THE
OTHER, THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE PLACE, THE MILD
CLIMATE, THE WELL-EQUIPPED AND EFFICIENT
ACCOMMODATION STRUCTURES MAKE AMALFI ONE OF THE
MOST EXCLUSIVE AND FAMOUS RESORTS FOR NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL TOURISM.
HISTORIC REGATTA
EVERY FOUR YEARS, IN JUNE OR JULY, AMALFI HOSTS
THE HISTORIC REGATTA OF THE ANCIENT MARITIME
REPUBLICS, A SPECIAL EVENT THAT DRAWS TOURISTS
FROM AT HOME AND ABROAD.
THE IDEA OF THE REGATTA WAS FIRST MOOTED IN THE
1950*S BY MIRRO CHIAVERINI OF PISA.
IT IS A DISPLAY AND SPORTING CONTEST THAT
REPRESENTS THE ANCIENT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE FOUR
MARITIME REPUBLICS, AMALFI, PISA, GENOA AND
VENICE.
THE HOTEL IS LOCATED 84 KM FROM POSITANO.
ON ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STRETCHES OF
COASTLINE IN THE PROVINCE OF SALERNO, AT THE
CENTER OF THE GULF FORMED BY POINT GERMANO TO THE
WEST AND CAPE SOTTILE TO THE EAST, ON TWO
MOUNTAIN SLOPES, THOSE OF MOUNTS COMUNE AND S.
ANGELO AT TRE PIZZI, STANDS POSITANO, IN A
SPLENDID PANORAMIC POSITION.
CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST EQUIPPED AND EXCLUSIVE
TOURIST RESORTS IN ITALY, ALSO FAMED FOR ITS
FLOURISHING FASHION TAILORS, POSITANO PERFECTLY
COMBINES THE BEAUTY OF ITS NATURAL SURROUNDINGS
AND NUMEROUS BEACHES, MARINA GRANDE, CIUMICELLO,
LA PORTA, ARIENZO E FORNILLO, WITH THE
FASCINATION OF ITS ANCIENT FISHING PORT AND THE
CHARM OF ITS STEPS AND LANES CROWDED WITH QUAINT
COLORFUL SHOPS.
ISCHIA
THE LARGEST OF THE NEAPOLITAN ISLANDS, LIES OFF
THE SOUTHERN ARM OF THE GULF OF NAPLES, ABOUT 10
KM. FROM THE MAINLAND.
WITH VOLCANIC ORIGINS, IT HAS PREVALENTLY
MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN, WITH MOUNT EPOMEO THE
HIGHEST PEAK, REACHING 788 M.
THE COASTLINE IS VERY JAGGED WITH FASCINATING
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