Palinuro

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Palinuro is an Italian coastal town in Cilento with about 1,200 inhabitants. He is a part of the community Centola in the province of Salerno (Campania ).

The town is located 5 m slm, the zip code is 84051 and the area code is ( 39) 0974th The Demonym for the inhabitants is Palinuresi.

History

Until the 1970s, the city consisted of only a few houses. Today Palinuro is a lively little seaside resort with a medieval castle ( Castello di Molpa, 15th century ) as well as a marina and the caves, which has worked into tireless work over time in the rocks of Cape Palinuro the sea.

Geography

Palinuro is a district of Centola. It is located north of the rock projection Cap of Palinuro in a small bay. Since 1991, the city is part of the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano and member of the Costiera Cilentana.

Sports

The place was 1980 arrival of the Giro d' Italia.

Legend

The most important point of reference for navigation in the area ( Gulf of Salerno, Gulf of Policastro ) is the towering cliffs into the sea nose of Cape Palinuro. That this is a very long way, the representation of Virgil is in the 5th book of the Aeneid: Aeneas When in distress came and finally sighted the rocky coast of the nose, dropped his helmsman, Palinurus, in a deep sleep and fell into the sea. His fate is described in the sixth book: Palinurus drove three days on the entrained rowing across the sea and eventually ran aground on the coast of Lucania. As soon as he thought he was saved, he was slain by the inhabitants of the area. Then they gave the rock its name.