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Palinuro is a major tourist areas of Campania. Its unspoiled coastline offers visitors beautiful stretches of beach and lots of small inlets, coves and sea caves hidden.

Just beautiful sea caves are a great attraction for many tourists every summer is to visit it. La Grotta Azzurra owes its name to the play of light created by a conduit to 20 meters in depth that allows the penetration of sunlight. The Cave of silver has to his name to the silver reflections caused by limestone deposited on the bottom, while the Cave of blood takes its name from a small red algae. The Cave of the monks shows the many visitors to the limestone formations in the form of monks in prayer.

Unfailing visiting all'Arco natural, a huge arch of rock that reaches out toward the sea, and the small bay behind him.

Immersed in the lush Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Cape Palinuro
it casts a peak in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in one of the best stretches of coastline preserved, protected and unspoilt southern Italy.

Cape Palinuro has ancient human settlements whose graves are dated around the sixth century. BC and finds indicate the presence of a Greek colony.

Its history is tied to the history of the city of Molpa, of which two are still ruins the castle and the parish church of San Giuliano, dating back to 1100.

Even from a naturalistic Palinuro presents surprises, including the Mediterranean, myrtle bushes, gorse and heather, you can find the famous Primula Palinuro, an original flower that grows only in this area.

To visit the palace baronial Rinaldi. In 1814 there lived the King of Naples (brother of Napoleon) Joachim Murat, who was in the area to inspect the forts on the coast and strengthened to any attack by enemies, can not miss a visit all'Antiquarium, which sets out the findings of a necropolis Sixth century. BC

The picturesque Cape Palinuro caves, which today are reflected in a crystal sea, about 130,000 years ago (during glacial Riss), were surrounded by a completely different landscape. The sea arrears for hundreds of meters from the coastline had given way to dense forests speckled extensive glades, fauna was predominantly made up of ibex, deer, deer, horses, bears and lions of the caves, while the caves were protected by 'Homo erectus. All this is documented by fossil finds, especially in the famous Cala Of Bones can be seen, embedded in the rock and smoothed by the sea, the bones of such an incredible zoo.
A more assiduous attendance of primitive is recorded in the Neolithic period (fourth millennium), the numerous remains of obsidian tools, fossil found in the dune, suggest Palinuro as a station for trade with the Aeolian where the glass came naturally.
During the epic Greek promontory was already known to mariners for its dangerous currents, so called Palinouros, a sort of capospartivento. As part of the same fear Greeks designated by the name of a mermaid, namely Molpè gracefulness, the river that flows on the slopes of Cape Palinuro, and we know that the sirens were the allegory of water perigliose.Nel 540 BC ionic settlers from Focea founded Elea (Velia) by purchasing the rights to the territory from the indigenous population, the Enotria, while built on Cape Palinuro, in Timpa Guard, a village with adjoining necropolis. The excavations have returned in abundance pottery, tools, jewelry and some coins with the inscription incuse Pal-Mol (Pal-Mol), which stands for Palinuro, the promontory, and Molpa (from Molpè) settlement.
Pal-Mol lasted a short period of thirty years; in 510 mysteriously became extinct. The poet Virgil fascinated by the places gives his interpretation of the facts and said, nell'Eneide, Palinuro, nocchiero of Aeneas betrayed by that sleep falls into the sea, but came ashore was attacked and killed by natives. The gods dell'oltretomba, offended dall'episodio sacrilegious, punish the people with a terrible plague.
Maybe we can not ever go exactly as the facts but it is worth remembering that the history of Foce is interwoven with questions concerning the territories and women ...!
In Roman Palinuro-Molpa was fitted with observation stations for the sighting of ships Carthaginians, but was also attended by eminent personalities, like the emperor said Erculio Massimiano, who chose for the beauty of places and the quality of wines.
In medieval times the duo survived only Molpa area on the hill and a village was built to be destroyed, the first time in 547 by Belisario, Byzantine general. The survivors fled in different surroundings monastery of competing in the foundation of some villages still exist, including Centola.
The Normans in the eleventh century, in the fight against the Lombards, the fortified hill build a mighty fortress, which still retains.
The robust defenses not subtracted Molpa the tragic fate that after ten centuries is renewed: at dawn, 11 June 1464 of a masnada Saracens destroyed by the slave its people. Molpa not resume anymore.
In 1554 the fief of Molpa-Palinuro was bought by Spanish nobleman Don Sancho Martinez de Leyna who built some of the coastal towers.
The strategic nature of Cape Palinuro not immune to the King of Naples and Sicily Joachim Murat that in the short decade of the Republic Partenopea (1806-1815), guarnì the hill with a series of forts around which we face on several occasions by a French and the British, Bourbons and the other bandits.
The ideals of the French Revolution did break even nell'anima Cilento and motions Risorgimento of 1828 saw Palinuro involved in struggles to Bourbon tyranny: a Palinuro was read the proclamation of the rebels cilentana "People Napoletano !,....", were to Palinuro Capozzoli shot patriots.
In subsequent years of the century there was a revival of the fishing village noble families and some interesting buildings built there, remember Villa Stanziola, Prince's Palace and Palace Rinaldi.
Recent history shows the construction of meteorological station in 1936 and then the emergence of an international tourism promoted by the Club Mediterranee and the hardworking people improved Palinuro.


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Cape Palinuro, prosthesis into the sea with its extraordinary shape pentadattilo, is one of the most beautiful coastline of Campania, with its rocks falling to peak in the ocean over 50 meters.
Among the thousand cracks in rocks, above which svetta the lighthouse of Cape Palinuro, nesting birds of many varieties and grow plants and flowers typical Mediterranean climate.
But the true treasure of Cape Palinuro is below sea level: 32 caves, a paradise for divers, of which the most important are the Blue Grotto, so named for the spectacular play of light on water, the cave and silver the sulphurous, which encloses a source of sulphurous water.

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