From the small harbour of the fishing village of Marina di Camerota, the view extends far across the sea to the south; in the distance, the silhouettes of high mountains can be seen in the morning haze. Gerardo crouches at the helm of his fishing boat; the diesel engine chugs steadily over the waves, he looks on levelly, a filterless cigarette tucked into the corner of his mouth. The fisherman is silent for a long time. Then he nods his head into the distance, towards the south, and says: "Calabria." He says it as if he were talking about a foreign continent. And not about Cilento's neighbouring region to the south.
Gerardo's homeland, the Cilento, is a microcosm of unspoilt southern Italy. Along the hundred kilometres of coastline, long sandy beaches alternate with cliffs that rise steeply and abruptly out of the blue sea. Wolves and otters still live in the forests in the hilly, sometimes mountainous hinterland. The "successful balance" between man and nature was the reason why UNESCO declared the Cilento a World Heritage Site in 1997.
You will find the following routes in the PDF download:
1. around the sleeping lion
(96 kilometres, 1,580 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of eight percent)
Marina di Camerota - Lentiscosa - San Giovanni a Piro - Torre Orsáia - Rofrano - Laurito - San Severino - Licusati - Camerota - Marina di Camerota
2. fresh breeze
(109 kilometres, 1,210 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of ten percent)
Marina di Camerota - Palinuro - Pisciotta - Ascea - Catona - Ceraso - Cúccaro Vétere- Futani - Céntola - Marina di Camerota
3. the terraces of the Cilento
(131 kilometres, 1,670 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of nine percent)
Casal Velino Scalo - Vallo d. Lucánia - Gioi - Stio - Magliano Vétere - Monteforte - Trentinara - Cicerale - Ogliastro Cilento - Rutino - Ostigliano - Perito - Orria - Fasana - Velino Scalo
4th Giro Mare e Monti
(82 kilometres, 1,280 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of eight percent)
Casal Velino Scalo - Marina di Casal Velino - Pioppi - Póllica - Acciaroli - Castellabate - Perdifumo - Mercato Cilento - Sessa Cilento - Omignano - (Stitch: Monte Stella; an additional 14 kilometres and 600 metres in altitude) - Stella - Acquavella - Casal Velino Scalo
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