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In the Cilento Habitat: Palinuro´s Azure Cave
  • Inside of the Palinuro´s Azure Cave
Palinuro is one of places more charming of the Campania, noteworthy above all for the beauty of its coast and for the clearness of the sea, it has into its territory one of sea Caves of Europe.
Palinuro is noteworthy ever since ancient time, thanks to the poem wrote by Virgil: the Eneide.
The writer told who Neptune, sea's god, to permit the navigation of Aeneas on the italic shores had required a victim, even if Palinurus was helmsman to the fleet died here togheter Miseno and both gave their names at two resort along the coast.
The Azure Cave represents the cavity more noteworthy to Capo Palinuro, in it there are phenomenons to refraction that they give at the water a formidable tonality of azure, everything reflected into the cave creating flashes and lights that enchant and amaze the visitor.
In the cave lives a particular sea fauna attached at the going up again to the hydrothermal waters type sulphurous.
  • Inside of the Palinuro´s Azure Cave
The cave is sharing into 2 parts, one rising out of water that it can be visit through the boats and the other one submerged that it develops into a long tunnel, in this area originate particular colouring of the water thanks to the beams that it throughs.
So the name of Azure Cave derives to the particular colouring of water.
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