Bike excursions in Cilento in Castellabate bicycles excursion in Agropoli, Acciaroli and Ascea.

Bike Excursions


Tresino Mountain : Monte Tresino, the centre of the ancient Greek colony Trezene. From here you come to the village, founded in the year 1000 and abandoned in the 18th. century, which is called San Giovanni, after the tumbled down church, which still unchanged, demonstrates the refined character of its walls from the late 17th. century. Click here for more info

)Licosa's Mountain:
Wonderful excursion up this Mountain with a spectacular view of whole area through pinewood and small lane. In this oasis of beautiful peace we can find here the rest of ancient Sighting Tower building in the X century during the Saracen incursion. In clear days you can see the fantastic view from Capri to Calabria region!!

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Licosa Island:

From S. Marco di Castellabate, through a wonderful path known as "Vallone Alto" characterised by a rich Mediterranean spot, you can reach Punta Licosa and the namesake little island. According to the legend, Licosa owes its name to Leucosia, the mermaid that disappeared here in the sea.
Aristotle tells that on this island there was a temple dedicated to the Mermaids and that the inhabited centre was built around it; but all was destroyed by an earthquake around V a. C.; The numerous archaeological finds, today still visible at the bottom of the sea, are a proof of this hypothesis. Not very far from the little island it rises Ogliastro Marina the small village that is having a great development thanks to tourist influx attracted by the mild and sweet climate and its uncontaminated sea.

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Vatolla ( Vargas Old Palace)

Bikes tour in Cilento' s hill, approximately 500 mt. on the sea level, in the small village of Vatolla, situated in predominant position, conserve the fortified dwelling of the family Vargas Machuca (sec.XVI), small but interesting medieval castle with its presence to bring back us to an age in which the requirement of the defense it was felt like primary. With the sunset of the feudal world also the castle de Vargas, like many others, lost its strategic importance and were transformed in comfortable residence gentilizia modifying, part externally, but above all inner, its aspect of fortress. The age of gold of the palace-castle arrives with the presence of the philosopher Gian Batiste Vico, that lived in the house like precettor of the sons of marquis Rocca from 1686 to 1695, as show the commemorative stone situated on his wall. To the inside of the palace some furnishings of the age are still today witnesses of that glorious period

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