Location: Salerno
Top Things to do in Salerno
What to do and see in Salerno, Campania: The Best Hidden Gems Things to do
Salerno (Italian: [saˈlɛrno] listen (help·info)) is a city and comune in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The city is divided into three distinct zones: the medieval sector, the 19th century sector and the more densely populated post-war area, with its several apartment blocks.
Restaurants in Salerno
1. Tempere - Azienda Vitivinicola Pica
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
Tempere’s wine house, that is immersed in the inland of cilento, produces a singular wine. The “aglianico tempere”. It is unique because involves all the fragrance usually unknown to the consumers. Tempere is a combination of passion, dedication and sacrifice. You will be surrounded by our hospitality also our staff will guide you in a wine tasting with some typical cheeses and sausages.
2. Blu Mediterraneo s.a.s
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5.0 based on 470 reviews
Blu Mediterraneo s.a.s. comes from the experience and passion of people who dedicate their lives to the things of the sea. Our company, based in Salerno - Molo Manfredi, provides services for recreational boating at 360 degrees: from the rental of boats, such as dinghies and Sorrento fishing boats, boat trips in the most enchanting spots of the Amalfi Coast, Cilento Coast, Capri and Islands, to
3. Salerno War Cemetery
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4.5 based on 59 reviews
Reviewed By Pwheel66 - Bolton, United Kingdom
The weather was dismal on the November 2019 day i visited but it was well worth the hour or so i spent wandering the immaculately kept cemetery. As always at such places simply reading the names on the graves and looking at the ages of those who fought in the Italian campaign leaves you very appreciative of their sacrifice. The epitaphs are very moving. The Italian campaign is often overlooked in the UK but it was the costliest WW2 endeavour for UK and Commonwealth forces in terms of casualties as they slowly pushed their way north.
4. Giardino della Minerva
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4.5 based on 976 reviews
In the heart of the Medieval town of Salerno, at the back of Fusandola torrent and of the old Mediaval walls, a terraced fenced orchard is situated. In it the remains of a glorious and rich history can be still seen: it is the so called Minerva’s Garden. This structure develops along the orchard line which from the Town Villa gardens goes up to the Medieval Castle. Minerva’s Garden is exactly situated in the middle of this ideal itinerary and it is certainly the most interesting example of orchard for the art-historical valuesit represents.What is today really striking for any visitor – thanks to a restoration work completed in September 2000 - is an interesting variety of eighteenth century style elements.Among these the most characteristic one is a long staircase emphasized by cross plan pilasters, with stucco decorations supporting a pergola. The staircase, linking and evidently framing the different levels of the garden, ends up to a belvedere-terrace which is also covered with a pergola, it is built on the old walls and allows a wide and privileged view of the sea including the port, the historical centre of the town and the hills.The water system, composed of basins and fountains, one of them for each terrace, with decorations made from calcareous concretions, shows the presence of abundant water sources which, suitably canalized have over centuries allowed – besides other uses – the cultivation of plots of land. This site is characterized by a special microclimate, fostered by a poor influence of north winds and by a favourable exposure, which still today allows the cultivation and spontaneous propagation of plant species needing a particularly moist and warm climate.Since the twelfth century Silvatico family had owned these places, one of its members, Matteo, physician of the Salernitan School of Medicine, between the thirteenth and fourteenth century, distinguished himself as big expert of the plants used for producing remedies. His work called Opus pandectarum medicinae, is a precious collection of information about semplici, that is on parts of plants which were used for producing remedies.In fact, after a careful examination of the historical documents and sources, scholars have proved the existence in the area of the Medieval town of Salerno, of a garden called giardino dei semplici, (garden from which parts of plants were extracted) founded in the first twenty years of 1300 by the Salernitan physician and botanist Matteo Silvatico, for being used by the scholars of the Medical School. In this space of an extraordinary cultural value, which can be today identified just in the area of Minerva’s Garden, the plants from which active principles used for a therapeutic purpose were extracted, were cultivated;besides this, in this place a real didactic activity was carried out in order to show the students of the Medical school the plants with their names and their characteristics (ostensio simplicium).This background testifies that the garden, situated in the area of the old site of the hortus sanitatis of the Salernitan Medical School, can be considered the oldest botanic garden linked to a school of medicine.
Reviewed By yns_10 - Sydney, Australia
Levels of beautiful gardens, ancient medicinal plants topped off with a fabulous view of Salerno and the coast. There is a cafe but in late May when we visited it was not open. There were only three other people in the gardens during our visit. Recommend
5. Castello di Arechi
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4.0 based on 662 reviews
Castle ruins date back to the Goth and Byzantine periods.
Reviewed By grace19552013 - Surrey, Canada
Old castle on top of the mountain . Take a bus right to the gates. There is a coffe shop in the courtyard. Really worth the trip , even just for the amazing view . You can see the castle from the beach.
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