🏛️UNESCO in Campania

Benevento

Province: Benevento · 130 m

Sannio capital at the Calore-Sabato confluence, with a 114 AD Trajan arch and a Lombard rotunda on the UNESCO list.

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.

Ascea

Province: Salerno · 230 m

Two villages, a hilltown at 230 meters and a Cilento marina, with Parmenides and Zeno's Eleatic school in the ruins of Greek Velia below.

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.

Capaccio Paestum

Province: Salerno · 419 m

Three Doric temples of 550 to 450 BC on the Sele plain, with mozzarella di bufala DOP on the buffalo flats below Monte Calpazio.

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.

Padula

Province: Salerno · 699 m

A hill town at 699 meters above the Vallo di Diano, holding the Certosa di San Lorenzo and the world's largest cloister.

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.

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.

Caserta

Province: Caserta · 68 m

Italy's answer to Versailles, built by the Bourbons on the Campanian plain with 1,200 rooms and a three-kilometer water axis.

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.

Ercolano

Province: Napoli · 44 m

The smaller, denser, more intact Pompeii — Herculaneum was buried under 25m of pyroclastic mud (not ash) on 24 October AD 79, preserving wooden roofs, papyrus scrolls, and second-storey balconies that no other Roman site has, and the modern comune of Ercolano above it adds the Vesuvius National Park gateway and the 18th-c Bourbon Ville Vesuviane along the Miglio d'Oro.

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.

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.

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.

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.