Agropoli

Informazioni : Luogo - Campania - Agropoli (Sa)

Prenota Agropoli

Placed to the beginning of the coast Cilentana, surmounted by the historical center, which is accessed through a monumental door very well preserved, the city of Agropoli, that only during the eight hundred it started to expand themself over the perimeter of the medieval boundaries, preserve intact the center ancient and big part of the circuit of the defensive boundaries with the seventeenth-century portal of entry.

The inclusion in the national Park of the Cilento and Go it of Give; the I bring tourist of IV class; the picturesque beach of the bay of Trentova with the homonym rock-cliff; traditional and comforting hospitalities do an important tourist and bathing center of it. The promontory on which Agropoli rises saw the presence of the man since the neolithic eve, but only in the following ages of the bronze and the iron it was inhabited, as it seems, in stable and continuous way from devoted native populations to the hunting and the fishing.

Since to east of the promontory, to the mouth of the river Testene, tells ancient Mouth, a sheltered natural bay opened, almost entirely covered with sand today, the Greek before and after the foundation of the near Poseidonia (around 625 a.C.) they used it for their commercials activities with the local populations, calling the promontory with Greek word Petra and building on it a temple devoted to Artemide goddess of the hunting.

In Roman age on the shore of the actual S. Marco, to east of the promontory and to the right of the Testenes, a called maritime suburb ERCULA developed him, that flowers, as he has been verified, among the The sec. a.C. and the V sec. AD, when the I bring of Poseidonia (then said by the Roman Paestums) it suffered a trial of progressive shelvement following the bradisismos coast.

When during the 5° century, the Vandals' raids coming from Africa made the life difficult to Ercula, its inhabitants they withdrew him on the overlooking promontory, that offered greater possibilities of defense.

Per visualizzare le foto é richiesto il plugin Flash. Scarica il Plugin.