DESTINATION CAMPANIA, ITALY

Campania is a region of Southern Italy. Tourist attractions include the Sibyl's cave at Cumae, the Greek temples at Paestum, the Roman ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum, the volcanoes of Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ischia, the Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana) from Sorrento to Salerno and the islands of Capri, Ischia and Procida.

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DISCOVER CAMPANIA: Amalfi, Capri, Cumae, Herculaneum, Ischia, Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Paestum, Pompeii, Positano, Ravello, Sorrento,

DISCOVER AMALFI Amalfi is the main town on the Costiera Amalfitana (Amalfi Coast), and is today an important tourist destination together with other towns on the same coast, such as Positano, Ravello and others. Amalfi is included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In the 1920s and 1930s, Amalfi was a popular holiday destination for the British upper class and aristocracy ...

DISCOVER CAPRI Capri is part of the region of Campania, Province of Naples. Features of the island are the Marina Piccola (the little harbour), the Belvedere of Tragara, which is a high panoramic promenade lined with villas, the limestone crags called sea stacks that project above the sea (the Faraglioni), Anacapri, the Blue Grotto, and the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas ...

DISCOVER CUMAE Cumae is an ancient Greek settlement lying to the northwest of Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Cumae was the first Greek colony on the mainland of Italy, and the seat of the Cumaean Sibyl. It was the Cumaean alphabet, as used throughout the Greek island of Euboea, that was adopted in Italy, first by the Etruscans and then by the Romans ...

DISCOVER ANCIENT HERCULANEUM Herculaneum was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows AD 79, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano, in the Italian region of Campania in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius. It is most famous for having been lost, along with Pompeii, Stabiae and Oplontis, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ...

DISCOVER ISCHIA The main industry of Ischia is tourism, centering on thermal spas that cater mostly to European and Asian tourists eager to enjoy the fruits of the island's natural volcanic activity, its thermal hot springs, and its volcanic mud. For many of the inhabitants on the Italian-speaking island, German and English are second languages...

DISCOVER MOUNT VESUVIUS Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, Italy, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting. The two other major active volcanoes in Italy, Etna and Stromboli, are located on islands ...

DISCOVER NAPLES Naples is by tradition the home of pizza. It is the birthplace of the Pizza Margherita, which traditionally is made with mozzarella cheese, pomodoro (tomato) and basil -representing, respectively, the red, white, and green of the Italian flag. The pizza was named when it was served to Queen Margherita during a visit to the city ...

DISCOVER ANCIENT PAESTUM Paestum is the classical Roman name of a major Graeco-Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. Founded around the end of the 7th century BC by colonists from the Greek city of Sybaris, and originally known as Poseidonia. Archaeological evidence indicates that the city was expanding with the building of roads, temples and other features of a growing city ...

DISCOVER ANCIENT POMPEII The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD ...

DISCOVER POSITANO Positano was once a relatively poor fishing village. It began to attract large numbers of tourists in the 1950s, especially after John Steinbeck published his essay about Positano in Harper's Bazaar in May, 1953: 'Positano bites deep', Steinbeck wrote. 'It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone ...

DISCOVER RAVELLO The town of Ravello has served historically as a destination for artists, musicians, and writers. Every year in the summer months, the Ravello Festival takes place. It began in 1953 in honour of Richard Wagner, who wrote 'The magical garden of Klingsor is found' suggesting that it was in Ravello that the composer found the inspiration for his Parsifal ...

DISCOVER SORRENTO The Amalfi Drive (connecting Sorrento and Amalfi) is a narrow road that threads along the high cliffs above the Tyrrhenian Sea. Ferry boats and hydrofoils provide services to Naples, Amalfi, Positano, Capri and Ischia. Sorrento's sea cliffs and luxury hotels have attracted notable people, including Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti ...

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