Domenica, 22 March 2009 23:37
Of sun and of blue, the discovery of the most famous cave of Palinuro
With these verses of Eneide, the great poet Virgil described the end of Palinuro, naive victim requested by Neptune, god of the sea, in order to continue to Aeneas his long journey on the banks Italic. And so began the knowledge, since ancient times, of this cape of Campania, of calcareous origin, prostheses in the Tyrrhenian Sea, with its cliffs overhanging into water. And from the unfortunate helmsman of Aeneas, that the legend wanted to be kidnapped by the wild sea, is called the primrose of Palinuro. A flower symbol of the place, studied by several botanists who consider this the first of all wild primroses in Europe, the only one who lives by the sea. A rarity, almost a living fossil, which grows between the cracks of the rocks on the coast, for not more than fifty miles, at the end of winter, marking the end of the cold when, in the hills of the Cilento National Park, which includes Capo Palinuro, all bloom again and color of sun and blue.
Unspoiled nature and unique, in short, that of Palinuro, also known for the great interest awakened from the piont of wiew of speleology marine in the Mediterranean, with its 35 caves and grottoes submerged, as the "cathedral", the "cave of blood" and "prehistoric" one, populated by peculiar species, typical from the depths of the abyss. An example is the unique fauna, linked to rising water hydrothermal sulfur type, the famous Blue Cave, one of the most beautiful sea caves of Europe. It is the cavity of the cape bigger and full of life, deep up to 33 meters and takes its name from the extraordinary shade of blue that the water becomes, thanks to particular phenomena of refraction. The cave is divided into two parts: one emerged, visited by the boats, and the black and the other submerged that develops into a long tunnel, where are the origin of the characteristic color of the water through the beams of light heterogeneous that pass through . From the tunnel then you will reach the so-called "hall of snow". Its floor is characterized by some depression with the form of funnel, from which comes out a spring of sulphurous water that covers the walls of a thick white pellicle. This, because of the bubbles discharged from the divers, it detaches from the ceiling creating a sort of effect snow, hence the name of cave. One of the few places, then, where you can see the snow even in August.
How to reach:
By train: Salerno - Reggio Calabria, the railway station of Pisciotta-Palinuro.
By car: Motorway A3 Salerno - Reggio Calabria, exit Battipaglia continuing with the state 18 for Agropoli, in Futani take the statal street 447 in the direction of Palinuro.
By sea: reach the tourist port of Marina di Camerota
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