Cilento Stone House - Cilento National Park

House located in an ancient building in the heart of the historic center of San Mauro Cilento capital. Restored by the expert hands of the local "masters", the house has kept all the typical Cilentan architectural features: "exposed" stone and "original" wooden beams.
Centrally located, a few steps from Serra Square and the "San Sebastian path" of the "Paths of Monte Stella", just fifteen minutes by car from the beach of Mezzatorre di San Mauro Cilento/Acciaroli.
San Mauro Cilento: one town...three holidays!
Sea, hills, mountains and a lot of history: from the Paleolithic (Palinuro, Camerota, Castelcivita) to Ancient Greece (Paestum, Elea/Velia) and to the great Greek philosophers such as Parmenides and the great Eleatic School.
San Mauro Cilento is a "treasure chest" of history, uses, customs, structures that bear the flavor of a cultural-rural texture and of very ancient lifestyles on which the traditional agriculture and today's tourism are based and welded together.
Our Marina, called Mezzatorre, with a large beach and tourist accommodation, comes from two ancient early medieval settlements: Maritima and San Primo.
On the Sala Hill stands a rural chapel, already a town in the 12th century.
Opposite the valley of the Camarano river and Quarrata, our oldest village, dating back to the 8th century.
In Casal Sottano, in the Aria dei Santi district, stands the palace with an adjoining chapel, the residence of the last heir to the throne of Constantinople, Rogerius Palaeologus, nephew of Emperor Constantine XI. The living Museum of our ancient Carnival, 'A Maschkarata, is located in one of its earthly environments.
The parish church, dedicated to the martyr S. Mauro, is a place of faith, art and history also due to the presence, in the Pio Monte succorpo, of the "Eleousa" museum.
The Casal Soprano is located within the fortified palace structure of the Mazza Elleni, while further in the distance you can see the ancient town of Sorrentini.
From the village it is possible to reach, through the paths of the "kind flowers", the summit of the mountain, with an ancient sanctuary: "Petilia", in the legend; “Cilento”, in antiquity; “Lucania”, in the Lombard era; today, of the "Stella". The mountain (at 1131 m a.s.l.) with its orographic structure positioned as the "chest", the "arms" and the "hands" of a great "mother", opens up in the manner of an enveloping gesture , welcoming and protective of the town with the "head" and the "eyes" ... in the Marian sanctuary.