A park to sea and mountains, that extends
itself from tyrannical coast as far as at
the feet to the Apennine Campano - Lucano,
including to a great extent to the province
of Salerno, representing one of the most
important set bio-geographic of the southern
Italy.
The Cilento National Park and Vallo di Diano,
second park in Italy to its dimension, it
extend itself for 178.000 hectares.
The splendid coast is that to Palinuro, Pisciotta,
Camerota and Punta Licosa, the mountains
are Alburni, Cervati and Gelbison. A land
rich of history and culture: wonderful Charterhouse
of Padula and the ruins of the greek colonies
to Elea and
Paestum, besides these are the lands where Palinurus
left Aeneas.Today this millenarian symbiosis
is perceptible in the wealth of rites and
traditions and in the big variety of typical
products.
From 1997 it became humaty heritage protected
to UNESCO.
The Cilento, land of sweet hill morphology, covered
with expanses of ash-green olives that they
reflected themselves in the blue of the Tyrrhenian
and at the same time, lend of very harsh
morphology deeply etched to lively torrents,
raie to moon look, woods of chestnuts and
holm-oaks,
villages clung at
the rocks or lied
down
on shores.
Few imagine that
to determine this
fresco,
did to evocative
shapes and colours
apparentlynin
strong contrast,
wheter double geologic
nature
of the rocks that
formed the Cilento:
that of the "
Flysch del Cilento", that it has its maxim diffusion in
corresponding at the hydro-geographic dock
of River Alento and of the main mountains
of western Cilento, as the Mount Centaurino
(1433 m.), and those "
limestone rocks" that formed mountainous internal complex
(Alburno-Cervati) and southerner (Mount Bulgheria,
Mount Cocuzzo) of the Cilento National Park
and Vallo di Diano. On the high coast, the
Flysch characterize itself for the thick stratification
of the rocks that sometimes assumed shapes
and colours particular what is possible to
find in resort red Ripe or in the sea terrace
to Punta Licosa.
The landscapes that
derive recognize
themselves
for the morphologyoften
sweet and for the
presence arboreus
of the maquis.
Left the northwestern
coast, territory
to
Flysch, and we advance
ourselves toward
inland
of Cilento National
Park and Vallo di
Diano,
the landscapes changes:
we are in the "kingdom"
of limestone rocks,
to the presence of
carbonatici
massifs to the Alburni
and the Cervati.
The landscape seems
to be with a lunar
appearance
made bare at the
"poverty"
of the
grounds, even if,
while the states
of soil
and waters permit
themselves, it became
full
of mediterranean
woods and beechwoods
or
meadows of lavander.
