Accommodations

Camping Pineta Club


EXSCURSIONS

Grotte di Capo Palinuro - Porto Infreschi - Baia del Buondormire - Fondali marini

WHERE WE ARE

By train: Line Salerno-Reggio Calabria, station of SS.FF. Pisciotta-Palinuro o San Severino di Centola.
By car: Autostrada con uscita sulla A3 Salerno/Reggio Calabria, uscita Battipaglia con proseguimento sulla SS.18 per Agropoli prima e sulla variante SS.18, proseguire (nuova strada a scorrimento veloce) in direzione Sapri uscita Poderia e poi seguire le indicazioni Marina di Camerota.
By sea: il porto turistico di Marina di Camerota è raggiunto dal servizio del Metrò del mare. Per gli orari e le fermate consultare www.metrodelmare.com

HISTORY

Marina di Camerota lies on the southern side of Cilento, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, and it is the port of its "commune".

The town is 5 km from Camerota, 8 from Palinuro, 25 from Policastro, and 90 from Salerno. The town, located on 40°N parallel, is the southernmost inhabited area of Campania.

The town of Marina is a part of "Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park", whose natural environment is composed of "Maquis", typical of Mediterranean countries. It is a main tourism location, especially in the summer, due to the quality of its water, which has earned it the Blue Flag beach award [1] every year since 2000.

Marina di Camerota is also interesting for its paleontologic caves [2], with human fossils discovered in '80s. One of these caves, located in Lentiscella zone, is a museum which accommodates the "Lion of Caprera"[3] (Leone di Caprera), a little schooner which in 1880–1881 crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Montevideo to Livorno.

Another point of interest is represented by three "telegraph towers", built by Bourbons and included in a system of defence and communication points, along the southern side of the Tyrrhenian coast.