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Marina di Camerota (in Cilento Marina re Cammarota) the most populous (3,500 inhabitants) of the town of Camerota, in the province of Salerno. The "pearl of the Cilento," as dubbed, is included in the national park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, and protected by UNESCO as world heritage and biosphere reserve. For seven consecutive years the European Blue Flag for the tourist port.

In the seventeenth century, Marina di Linfreschi was but a group of houses in Cape dell'Infrischi, with a well, bakery, warehouse and tavern, inhabited by farmers and fishermen involved in the coast fortifications. The population grows, many sailors on the Amalfi Coast and Sorrento there are established, and the town is growing around a church dedicated to San Domenico di Guzman.

It is July 17 1848, and Duke Ferdinand II signed a decree that stipulates: "The cluster of houses along the coast takes Camerota the name of Marina di Camerota."

In the nineteenth century and early twentieth has been the phenomenon of migration, particularly directed towards South America and Venezuela: For links with those lands maintained in a central square, facing the harbor, was erected a statue to "libertador" Venezuelan Simón Bolívar, who are also dedicated to the main street of the country and one of the local cinema.


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The name is also traced back to the girl Kamaraton, beautiful like a goddess, but from the heart of stone. Legend has it that the nocchiero of Enea, Palinuro if they loved madly, reaching even to chase his image in the bottom of the sea, facing his destiny. Guilty of unrequited love, Kamaraton was transformed into rock from Venus, the rock on which today stands Camerota, perennial witness to an unfortunate love.

Marina di Camerota is located along Highway 562, 8 km east of Palinuro, 5 by Camerota, 18 from San Giovanni a Piro, and about 90 from Salerno. The area includes west coastal areas and localities of Grotta del Cyclops (who hosts a popular disco), Cala del Mullet, Cala Finocchiaro, Cala d'Archon (with an island adjacent) and Calanca. To the east there are Lentiscelle, Cala Fortuna and Monte Cala Luna, Cala Bianca, Port Arthur and Infreschi.
Situated right on the 40th parallel north, is the southernmost town of Campania. The geographic southernmost point is the nearby Punta Infreschi.

Because of the nature of karst land, Marina di Camerota is known to palaeontologists for the interesting caves scattered throughout its territory, most of them, from the'50s of the'900, were made important archaeological finds, dating mainly to the Stone Age.

Starting from the border with Palinuro, along the so-called Cala del Mullet are found caves that until the discoveries were inhabited by shepherds with families: among them, are mentioned by the Fish Grotto or dell'Autaro (this' Last today hosts a popular disco). For the northern edge of the village, there was the Grotto of Calanca today no longer exists because of a collapse. More important are the Grotta del Poggio Sepolcrale or the Cave Manfregiudice ( "Well" and dangerous), the Cave of Cala dell'Uomo or prehistoric, and the shelter of Poggio or Niche Gamba (which represents the remains of what was a cave , Collapsed already in prehistoric times).

Others can be found on the coast and are reachable only by sea between them, are to be mentioned the Cave of Santa Maria, the Grotta di Porto Infreschi (accessible by sea, and in which there is a source of fresh water , Whose oxidation has vividly colored rock), and the Grotto of the nogle or trouble, so that for double entry shaped Neapolitan sausages (called nogle).

In 1960, some remains of human skulls found in the cave Sepolcrale and badly reconstructed, did briefly consider that had been returned to a "missing link" in human evolutionary chain, since the findings (dating back to the Middle Paleolithic) presented themselves as those of an individual from chin jutting and significant cranial capacity, in sharp contrast to Man of Neanderthal. Al alleged ominide was given the name Homo Camerotensis, but shortly after studies made it down the already weak identity.

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