🌳Parco Regionale in Campania

Tramonti

Province: Salerno · 321 m

The inland side of the Amalfi Coast, thirteen hamlets on the Lattari slopes producing the Costa d'Amalfi Tramonti DOC and an exported pizza dough.

Positano

Province: Salerno · 30 m

The vertical village of the Amalfi Coast, terraced houses climbing four hundred meters from Spiaggia Grande to the Lattari ridge under a tiled Byzantine dome.

Furore

Province: Salerno · 300 m

The Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.

Massa Lubrense

Province: Napoli · 121 m

The Sorrentine Peninsula's largest commune by area, stretching from Sorrento across Punta Campanella to the Gulf of Salerno, Capri three miles offshore.

Montesarchio

Province: Benevento · 300 m

Ancient Caudium at 300 meters in the Valle Caudina, the Roman defeat at the Forche Caudine still attached to the name two thousand years later.

Pompei

Province: Napoli · 30 m

The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.

Pozzuoli

Province: Napoli · 28 m

A Roman port on the Campi Flegrei caldera, the Greek Dicearchia and Roman Puteoli, where the Macellum columns first proved bradyseism.

Sant'Agata de' Goti

Province: Benevento · 156 m

A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.

Sessa Aurunca

Province: Caserta · 203 m

Ancient Suessa Aurunca on the south slope of an extinct volcano, with a Romanesque cathedral of Cosmatesque mosaics built in 1103.

Vietri sul Mare

Province: Salerno · 80 m

The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.

Amalfi

Province: Salerno · 6 m

• 🍋Limone Costa d'Amalfi IGP

The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.

Atrani

Province: Salerno · 21 m

The smallest commune in Italy by area, twelve hectares of stacked houses where the Amalfi Coast pinches shut around a single piazza.

Bacoli

Province: Napoli · 30 m

A Campi Flegrei town twenty kilometers west of Napoli, the Roman Bauli, where the Piscina Mirabilis fed the imperial fleet at Miseno.

Conca dei Marini

Province: Salerno · 138 m

A coastal hamlet of 664 people on the Amalfi Coast, the birthplace of the sfogliatella Santa Rosa and home to the Emerald Grotto.

Maiori

Province: Salerno · 5 m

The Amalfi Coast town with the longest beach and a grid street plan, rebuilt after the 1954 flood took the medieval lanes.

Ravello

Province: Salerno · 365 m

A ridge town 365 meters above the sea, where Wagner found Klingsor's garden in 1880 and the Ravello Festival has played his music since 1953.

Summonte

Province: Avellino · 738 m

An Irpinia hill village at 738 meters on the slope of Monte Vallatrone, built around a 16-meter Angevin cylinder tower over the Partenio.

Torre Annunziata

Province: Napoli · 15 m

Capital of Italian pasta in the interwar period and home of the Roman Villa di Poppea, on the bay at the foot of Vesuvius.

Cetara

Province: Salerno · 10 m

The Amalfi Coast's working tuna and anchovy port, where colatura di alici is still aged in chestnut barrels in the cellars behind the marina.

Mercogliano

Province: Avellino · 550 m

A 550-meter Irpinia town on the slope of Partenio, gateway to the Montevergine Sanctuary 1,270 meters above and its Black Madonna.

Minori

Province: Salerno · 13 m

The smaller of the two Rheginnae, where a first-century Roman maritime villa sits four blocks from the Tyrrhenian beach.

Nusco

Province: Avellino · 914 m

The Balcony of Irpinia at 914 meters, a ridge town between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, hometown of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.

Piano di Sorrento

Province: Napoli · 96 m

The quieter Sorrentine plain four kilometers from Sorrento, autonomous since 1808, with prehistoric Gaudo pottery and a black-sand marina at the foot of the cliff.

Praiano

Province: Salerno · 120 m

The Amalfi commune between Positano and Amalfi where the doges of the maritime republic kept their summer residences and the Path of the Gods starts.

Sorrento

Province: Napoli · 50 m

• 🍋Limone di Sorrento IGP

The Roman Surrentum on a tuff cliff above the Bay of Napoli, birthplace of Torquato Tasso, sacked by the Turks in 1558.

Vico Equense

Province: Napoli · 90 m

The northern gate of the Sorrento peninsula at 90 meters, the Roman Aequana, where Luigi Dell'Amura invented pizza al metro in 1930.