Camerota borgo
Camerota
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The story
The old town gathered beneath Monte Bulgheria, far from the sea, with its white alleys and terracotta workshops carrying on an ancient Cilento craft.
Access
FREE
The story
Camerota is a hill village of the southern Cilento, the southernmost municipality of Campania, with a still-legible medieval layout. The name is said to derive from the Greek kamarotós, 'curved', for the numerous limestone grottoes of the territory. A border land in the early Middle Ages between Lombards and Byzantines, it was repopulated after the Norman conquest and devastated by the Turks of Dragut in 1552.
What to see
The old centre keeps the medieval imprint, with alleys, stone houses and period buildings, dominated by the remains of the castle, whose main keep dates to the Norman period. Around it, the countryside of the lower Cilento and, a short distance away, the sea of Marina di Camerota.
Hours and prices
Free entry.
Tips
Camerota is an inhabited village, not a museum: move with respect among the alleys and the houses of the residents. It is visited on foot. It is a good base to discover the hinterland and the coast of Marina di Camerota, with its coves and grottoes.
Frequently asked questions
What is the village of Camerota?
The hilltop old centre of the municipality of Camerota, in the southern Cilento, of medieval layout, with alleys, stone houses and the remains of a Norman castle.
Are Camerota and Marina di Camerota the same thing?
No: Camerota is the hill village, Marina di Camerota is the hamlet by the sea, a short distance away.
How do you visit Camerota?
On foot, with respect because it is an inhabited village; it is a good base for the hinterland and the coast of the lower Cilento.
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◆ Free beachesPiscina naturale degli Iscolelli
Camerota (SA)
Pools carved into the rock with a tongue of white pebbles, reachable only after twenty minutes of path from the headland: still water, crystal clear, with not a single sign to point the way.
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An inland borgo (old village) at two hundred and sixty metres, in a valley of pisciottana olive trees that yields a prized oil, with the mills still running among the stone houses.
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Reachable only by sea or on foot, the tower watches over a bay near Camerota where freshwater springs surface among the rocks and the coves stay wild.
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Spiaggia del Pozzallo
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A cove of white pebbles squeezed between dark cliffs and the clearest of seas, reached on foot along a path or by boat from Marina di Camerota.
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Cala Bianca
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Set among walls of white rock and Mediterranean scrub, reachable on foot or by sea, Cala Bianca offers pale pebbles and crystal-clear water in the wild heart of the Cilento.
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