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Cilento

The Cilento is one of the most beautiful areas of Campania, included entirely in the province of Salerno, boasts many places of great tourist interest and much of its territory is part of the National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano, with the archaeological sites of Paestum and Velia and the Certosa di Padula, aimed at protecting the rich natural heritage, including, in particular, the Primula palinuri petagna, symbol of the same park. The Cilento is part, together with the Vallo di Diano, of western Lucania and has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Cilento has, for millennia, inspired poets and singers; many of the Greek and Roman myths have been set on its shores. The most famous myth is that of the island of mermaids, told by Homer in the Odyssey. The island to which the poet refers, where the sirens lived that, with their song, made the passing sailors crazy, including Ulysses himself, crashing them into the rocks, is the island that is opposite Punta Licosa.