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Campania & the Amalfi Coast

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Sleeps up to 2
1 Bedroom
1 Shower room
Air conditioning
Walk to shops/restaurants
Changeover day: Sunday.
Commence 16:00 , depart 10:00.
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The plains of Campania are rich agricultural lands: Italy’s best mozzarella, mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella), is made in Campania; olives and citrus groves thrive. The interior is quiet and mountainous, but the most dramatic geography lies by the coast. Don your hiking boots to enjoy the views from Amalfi’s Sentiero dei Dei (‘Path of the Gods’). The view from the highest point on Ischia—the 790 metre summit of Mount Epomeo—takes in the entire Bay of Naples.

Eating and drinking in Campania and the Amalfi Coast

Pizza is a religion on the streets of Naples, and the city’s wood-fired ovens serve up the world’s best. The raw materials grow just outside the city limits: mozzarella di bufala and the plum-shaped San Marzano tomatoes that grow on the volcanic soils around Mount Vesuvius. These tomatoes are also the base for a napoletana sauce (tomatoes and basil). Around the Amalfi Coast, your lunchtime bowl of pasta will probably have something from the sea; spaghetti alle vongole (with clams) is a staple. Campania’s white wines like Greco di Tufo and Falanghina can be powerful, sometimes yellow in colour, and often high in alcohol. Finish a meal with a limoncello liqueur—spirit infused with sweet local lemons.

Coast

Along the Amalfi Coast, villages cling to the impossibly steep coast or perch on rocky spurs amid lemon groves. Take your camera for a ride around the nerve-jangling hairpins of the Amalfi Coast Drive—the SS163—and halt at Ravello to admire the view. It is more sedate on the sands at Sorrento and on the island of Ischia; try windsurfing or kayaking if you are feeling sprightly. A day’s gentle island hopping in the Bay of Naples between Ischia, Procida, and Capri is easy by hydrofoil.

History

Naples first grew as an outpost of ‘Magna Graecia’ (ancient Greater Greece); the ruined temples at Paestum, south of Salerno, date to before 500 BC. Both Pompeii and Herculaneum have been a key source of knowledge about life in Roman times. Later in its history, Campania was ruled by Normans, Angevins, Spaniards, French Bourbons, and even—during his time as the hero of local football club Napoli—Diego Maradona. Amalfi was once a maritime republic to rival Genoa and Venice, and has a Romanesque cathedral dating from its heyday, between the 11th and 13th century.

Nature

Mother Nature has had her say here, that is for sure. The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 caught Pompeii and Herculaneum in their own frozen Armageddon. Both lay undisturbed under the lava and mud until the 1700s. Rocky island coastlines have formed over millennia into odd shapes, like Il Fungo (‘the mushroom’) off Ischia and Capri’s Blue Grotto. Nature got a helping hand in the 1950s from an English composer and a landscape architect, in creating the exotic gardens at La Mortella, on Ischia.

Arts and culture in Campania and the Amalfi Coast

Naples is Campania’s cultural hub. Its Capodimonte Museum houses paintings by many of Italy’s leading painters, including Simone Martini, Caravaggio, and Bellini. At the city’s Feasts of San Gennaro, in early May and mid-September, streets are packed as Neapolitans celebrate the miraculous liquefaction of their saint’s blood. ‘Pulcinella’, the prototype for seaside character Mr. Punch, also hails from Campania—he is a stereotypical, anarchic Neapolitan. Sorrento has a tradition of intarsia woodworking, and has a museum and shops dedicated to the craft.

Relaxation

The Romans used Campania’s coast and islands as a holiday playground. Pompeii was a prosperous resort for the middle classes; Capri has preserved remains of a grand villa used by Roman Emperor Tiberius, Villa Jovis. Lush, green Ischia has several natural volcanic spas where you can soak in the thermal waters or get caked in mud; hit the sandy beach at Citara afterwards.

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Written by Donald Strachan for CV Travel.

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