Capo Palinuro is a rocky promontory on the coast of Southern Campania, between the gulf of Velia and that of Policastro, in the Cilento in the Province of Salerno. It goes for about 2 km into the Tyrrhenian sea, west of the mouth of the Lambro and Mingardo rivers. Capo Palinuro weather station is located there.
Its territory falls within the Palinuro district of the municipality of Centola. It is an important tourist resort, famous for the landscape beauties related to the sea and its hinterland and for the historical and literary reminiscences linked to its name.
During the Greek era the promontory was already known by sailors for the danger of its insidious currents, they also designated with the name of a siren, symbol of treacherous waters, Molpè or the graceful, the river that flows on the slopes of the Palinuro cape.
In 540 BC Ionic colonists from Focea erected on Capo Palinuro, in Molpa, a village with an adjoining necropolis.
Capo Palinuro
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