Monte Faito
Vico Equense (NA)
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The story
Above the gulf of Naples the Faito covers itself in cool beech woods, a destination of panoramic ridges where in summer you breathe mountain air a stone's throw from the sea.
More gems in Vico Equense
- Nature & hiking
Monte Faito e il Molare
Vico Equense
Beech woods a step from the sea, where the Molare marks the highest summit of the Lattari and on clear days the eye travels from Ischia to the Cilento.
- Views & panoramas
Punta Scutolo e belvedere di Arola/Monte Comune
Vico Equense
The headland that divides two gulfs and, higher up, the plateau of Monte Comune above Arola, from where the eye takes in Naples and Salerno in a single sweep of the horizon.
Free beachesMarina di Seiano
Vico Equense
The little harbour of Vico Equense beneath the tufo (volcanic tuff) walls, with the fishermen's boats, the bathing clubs on the rocks and a reef that shelters the water from the wind.
- Sacred art
Cattedrale dell'Annunziata di Vico
Vico Equense (NA)
Clinging to a spur of tufo (volcanic tuff) sheer above the sea, the Annunziata is the peninsula's only Gothic cathedral: inside, the half-light; outside, the Bay of Naples flung wide open.
History & archaeologyMuseo Mineralogico Campano
Vico Equense (NA)
In a seventeenth-century former convent of Vico Equense, thousands of minerals from all over the world gathered by a single enthusiast, down to a fragment of graphene donated by a Nobel laureate.
More gems: Hiking
HikingScala Fenicia
Marina Grande→Anacapri
The ancient stone stairway that for centuries was the only link between Marina Grande and Anacapri, step after step up the face of the mountain.
- Hiking
Sentiero degli Dei
Agerola→Nocelle
The path that runs along the mountainside between Agerola and Nocelle, suspended above the coast: terraces, dry-stone walls and the sea opening all the way to the Faraglioni of Capri.
- Hiking
Ponte Tibetano di Laviano
Laviano (SA)
Ninety metres suspended over the Vallone delle Conche: on the Tibetan bridge of Laviano you walk through the void amid the woods, your gaze running all the way to the Sele valley.
- Hiking
Zipline 'Volo dell'Angelo' di Trentinara
Trentinara (SA)
Sixteen hundred metres of cable strung above the gorges of the Cilento: hooked to the Volo dell'Angelo of Trentinara, you glide toward the gulf of Salerno at the speed of the wind.
- Hiking
Zipline del Fiordo di Furore
Furore (SA)
Seven hundred metres of cable cross the fjord of Furore to Conca dei Marini: a flight of a few instants suspended between the rock walls and the blue of the coast.
HikingValle delle Ferriere
Amalfi (SA)
Above Amalfi the trail climbs a damp valley of waterfalls and prehistoric ferns, among the ruins of the old ironworks swallowed by the vegetation.