Palinuro, one of the most beautiful Cilento Where is our pension Cinquestelle, is part of the district of the municipality of Centola. It is one of the many cases in which the village takes on a greater importance to the capital city, but could only be so having regard to the wild beauty of the area of Cape Palinuro that is unparalleled and the history and legends that lurk there.

The myth, as we have 'been handed down by Virgil in the Aeneid, wants Palinuro, helmsman of Aeneas, was at the helm when, at nightfall, the god of sleep, Morpheus descended from Olympus, assuming the guise of Phorbas. As the sea was calm, the god tried to persuade him to rest because the ship would stay the course even without a guide. Palinuro responded badly, considering the proposed Phorbas senseless. Then God touched her temples with a branch of Palinuro wet in the waters of Lethe, Palinuro fell into a deep sleep and the god, lifting, threw him overboard. For three nights he was dragged by the waves, clinging to the rudder had torn from the ship when it was falling into the sea. The dawn of the fourth day a giant wave threw him on the coast, near the Greek city of Elea, where he was attacked and killed.

 

Cilento, land of history, myth, art and culture. With its unspoilt scenery, its clear water and sunny, the small medieval villages perched on hills, the forests of fragrant herbs and its mountains. E 'characterized by a varied landscape that makes it beautiful and charming the tourists who visit for the first time. Very well known are the beaches of silky sand and its coastline marked by ravines and sandy bays alternate with cliffs dominated by ancient watchtowers: Agropoli, Maria di Castellabate, San Marco, Acciaroli, Palinuro, Marina di Camerota, all important destinations of domestic and foreign tourism resort and real wonders of the Italian peninsula.

The hinterland is equally beautiful with its mountains and its valleys, where nature is preserved intact and wild. In the Cilento are woods of chestnut, oak trees, olive trees (the most valuable is to Pisciotta), beech (the largest are those of Alburni and deer) forests of oak and pine. National Park, which also affects this area, there are about 1800 species of native wild plants, some of them very rare. The best known of these species, and perhaps most important, is the Palinuro Primrose (Primula palinuri), symbol of the park, a very localized distribution. Beaches is also still the increasingly rare marine Giglio.