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Olive Oil

The olive trees produce a distinct variety of olive oil: "pisciottano". Come in the Autumn to see the harvest (using nets spread on the ground to collect the falling fruit)

 

Anchovies

The fishing fleet catch anchovies using traditional methods. That means using nets with big enough holes to let the young/small fish through - a traditional example of sustainable fishing, and fishing at night with lamps suspended over the water to attract the anchovies

There's an Anchovy Festival in September

 

Blue Beaches

Beaches along the Cilento coast have regularly been awarded Blue flags for being super-clean, the water is very clear

 

Elea Velia

Just North of Pisciotta and towering over Marnia di Ascea is the archaeological park of Elea Velia - ancient Greek city

More here

Paestum

ⒸRich Walton

Further North are the impressive Greek temples at Paestum - you can get there by train - more here

 

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Pompei, Sorrento, the Amalfi coast...

Matera, Puglia, Sicily

List of places to visit - download

 

Events

Summer has loads of events - above is the concert that accompanied the sausage and chips festival in nearby San Nicola last August.

Here's a calendar link - though you may find picking up flyers or checking out posters finds you more events during your stay.

Pisciotta has many religious processions/saints days

 

 

Med Diet

North of Pisciotta is the village of Pioppi which claims to be one of the starting points for the "Mediterranean diet" concept - Dr Ancel Keys studied the local diet in the 1950s and spotted the extreme longetivity of the population. The original garden where this happened is not kept up but there's a museum. (Once you've walked around Pisciotta for a day or two you may also feel the endless steps up and down also play a role in peoples' fitness..)

Labour's Tom Watson lost 7 stone following the Pioppi diet

 

Naples

Grimy, chaotic, noisy Naples with Vesuvius looming in the near distance has shops, museums and street life plus the airport and train terminus - detailed guidance on how to get from the airport to the car hire/central train station here