Farm Holidays Maida, the territory
Capaccio-Paestum:
Paestum
represents a show of majesty and largeness, one of the greater
architectonic testimonies of the Magna Greece,
memory of the centuries in which Poseidonia
it was one of the rich and flourishing colonies of southern
Italy. Poseidonia (this was the original name of Paestum)
was foundation magnogreece, operated from the Sibari Greek
at the beginning of VI century a.c.; it was
chosen like situated a rich but swampy plain to little distance
from the Silaros river, puts into effect
them Sele, than to the age he was navigable. It walls to raise
for beyond 4,5 km interrupted from 4 doors and spaced out
from towers and small passages.In the field centers them of
the city find the main public and sacred areas, to south lever
in its majesty the so-called Basilica, more
exactly the temple dedicated to Hera, divinity
founding beloved to the Achei of Sibari.
Of doric style with infuences of the ionic style it today
conserve the external structure, colonnade inner and the insufficient
rests of the tombstone elements of the inner ones. Of approximately
one century more young is the temple of Neptune,
whose dedication is still today uncertain, being attributed
to Zeus or Hera, is found in optimal state
of conservation. In the ruins of the city can to acknowledge
the Amphitheater, even if only partially
dug and the Greek Agora' that a place of
reunions embraces said anciently ekklesiasterion. Not to forget
the beautiful temple about Cerere or Atena,
goddess of the war. To visit National the Archaeological
Museum that accommodates the magnific painted of
the tomb of the Diver.
The Cilento and Vallo di Diano:
The
Cilento is a mountainos territory, that it points
out on the blue of the Tyrrhenian sea with
uneven coasts and raises towards the inside with the mounts
Cervati and Sacro, in order to sweeten itself
between the hill reliefs sinuous crossed from numerous water
course. The only represented plain strip is from Vallo
di Diano, anciently a lake. Furrowed from the rivers
Calore and Tanagro and the Sele
the Cilento it saw its ancient inhabitants uniforms between
the Lucani in the inner zones and the Greek Peasant that preferred
the coast , it was subsequently earth of "municipia"
and then still fief of the Sanseverini which opposing itself
continuously at the autority were looked at removed the fief
in 1552, which passed under the Spanish dominion
it saw its forfeiture. Numerous archaeological exhibit that
going back to the Greek and roman age, with
to the recognized natural wealth definitively in 1991 with
the institution of the National Park of the Cilento
and Vallo di Diano, make it a rich earth of history
and able culture, those rhythms of life still sean from the
dawn and the sunset. Can find moreover wonders carved from
the job of the winds and waters like the Coves of
Pertosa, the most important of the meridione also
said coves of the Angel or Saint Michele.
