Monte Tifata e i ruderi del santuario di Diana
San Prisco (CE)
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The story
The mountain sacred to Diana Tifatina, where the holm oaks of the sacred wood gave the mountain its name: you climb among ruins that the shepherds still call the temple of Jupiter, and from the summit cross the Capuan plain opens all the way to the sea.
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History & archaeologyMausoleo delle Carceri Vecchie
San Prisco (CE)
For centuries the peasants swore that here, inside this brick drum on the Appia, the gladiators waited in chains for their turn in the arena. It was in fact an imperial tomb of the 1st century, and above the ancient entrance somebody built a chapel.
- Sacred art
Sacello di Santa Matrona
San Prisco (CE)
At the end of the right aisle of an ordinary parish church you look up and the ceiling bursts into a sky of gold and lapis lazuli: 5th-century mosaics with Christ and the symbols of the Evangelists, among the oldest in Campania. Almost nobody knows they are there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.