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VILLAGES OF THE SEA AND TREASURES OF THE ABYSS
What remains of the ancient port at south of the Gulf of Salerno
Friday, 27 March 2009 13:42
A barrier of stone blocks all lined up, that seem to be rocks from where it is possible to make a tender of dives. It's what remains today of an old dock at San Marco di Castellabate, south of the Gulf of Salerno.
This port of the Roman era, not far from the modern one, was formed by two side walls with an opening at the center, from where even today, at a depth of 6 meters, is well planted a tower completely submerged.
Scholars suggest that to build this, like many other ports of the time, it was necessary to transport by sea, for lack of links in the land, huge loads of material, which sometimes were also lost. The ways of the sea, in fact, in ancient represented the most developed routes of trade and commerce, not only for the great maritime cities, but also for small towns such as San Marco. Fruitful ground for those local products which, although they didn't have all the publicity that they have today, already had successful. There are concrete evidence the found of fragments of amphorae, the only known container for supplies of oil, wheat and wine.
This port of the Roman era, not far from the modern one, was formed by two side walls with an opening at the center, from where even today, at a depth of 6 meters, is well planted a tower completely submerged.
Scholars suggest that to build this, like many other ports of the time, it was necessary to transport by sea, for lack of links in the land, huge loads of material, which sometimes were also lost. The ways of the sea, in fact, in ancient represented the most developed routes of trade and commerce, not only for the great maritime cities, but also for small towns such as San Marco. Fruitful ground for those local products which, although they didn't have all the publicity that they have today, already had successful. There are concrete evidence the found of fragments of amphorae, the only known container for supplies of oil, wheat and wine.
Of sun and of blue, the discovery of the most famous cave of Palinuro
Domenica, 22 March 2009 23:37
"Palinuro, you believed too in the serene and calm. Now that you are lost in sea and that you are lying naked in a beach unknown, you will not have honor and you will not have someone that cover you."
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.
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.
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