Dreaming Magic Cilento offers visitors a top quality service, planning and organising tours and holidays in Cilento with the package “The Cilento History Tour”.

This is a major promotion, backed by a close network of tourism service providers, aimed at raising the profile of Cilento’s cultural and historical treasures to complement the experience of a holiday in this area of outstanding natural beauty

Cilento, in the heart of the National Park of Cilento e Vallo di Diano,  is the meeting place of the sea and the mountains, of the Nordic and Mediterranean cultures, diverse people and civilisations whose distinctive traces  are still evident.

We have picked out some of the National Park’s  most interesting sites for you to visit:

• The archeological sites of Paestum and Velia
• The Carthusian Monastery Certosa di San Lorenzo a Padula
• The old hill town of Torchiara  
• Mediaeval town and Basilica of di S.Maria de Julia in Castellabate
• Fishing village of S.Maria di Catellabate
• Marine nature reserve on the Island of Licosa  
• G.B. Vico Cultural Foundation in Valtolla
• Murals in Piano Vetrale
• Abandoned mediaeval town of S.Severino di Centola
• Valle delle orchidee di Sassano
• Abandoned hill town of Roscigno Vecchio
• Historic town centre of Novi Velia
• Historic town centre of Stio
• Country life museum at Ortodonico
• Castle and historic town centre of Rocca Cilento.
• The aquarium and sea-life centre at Pollica

The package covers 3 or 5 days spent exploring the sites of historical interest in the northern part of the Cilento National Park. This area boasts a wide range of hotel, and other accommodation, on the coast leading to the inland areas of great historical and cultural interest.
The accommodation selected is mainly in the countryside in farmhouses and country house hotels, allowing visitors to feel in close contact with the natural surroundings and to enjoy a truly relaxing stay.

A typical 5 day package:

Day 1
Transfer from airport or station
Arrival and hotel check-in
A Cilento aperitif and presentation of the itinerary
Dinner Cilento-style

Day 2
Cilento-style breakfast
Guided tour of Vatolla: Palazzo Vargas, Museo Vichiano Vatolla
Lunch in Vatolla at a countryside restaurant 
The historic town of Torchiara: Villa Comunale Palazzo de Concilis, Piazza Torre.
Evening free

Day 3
Cilento-style breakfast
Guided tour of Castellabate:
Mediaeval town, Castello dell'Abate, Basilica di S.Maria de Julia.
Guided tour of  Pollica:
Port of Acciaroli, aquarium and sea-life centre
Gala Cilento-style dinner with traditional local entertainment.

Day 4
Cilento-style breakfast
Guided tour of  Orria:
Piano Vetrale famous for its murals.
Lunch in Stio at a countryside restaurant
Guided tour of Stio
Evening free

Day 5
Cilento-style breakfast
Guided tour of Agropoli:
The old town centre, the port, the main shopping street.
Lunch at the “Country House” Castellabate
Departure
Transfer to airport or station.

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