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Cilento - the coast, the beach and the sea

altravita from Monday 4 August 2008 4 Comments

Even in the last preliminary report on the Cilento I want to lose a few words and let pictures speak. In the broadest sense, we drove to the sea and even though we certainly not every day spent on the beach, include rotten day under the parasol to as the Sugo for pasta. And so we were on the beaches [...]

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Category: Cilento travel tips Keywords: vacation

Cilento - Val Sele

altravita from Friday, 1 August 2008 No Comments

Slowly I come to the conclusion of my Cilento report. Of the dozens of great places that we visited, I would still show you where in the Cilento Coast best swim and how it looks at home. Our hotel was located in Val Sele yes, a bit in the hinterland of Cilento, about 20-25 minutes [...]

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Cilento - Grotta di Pertosa

altravita of Wednesday, 23 July 2008 No Comments

If one of our accommodation in Bagni di Contursi in the direction of highway driving, builds directly in front of a spectacular Felsmassiv of the Monti Alburni on. Because of their unique shape is the mountain range also dolomiti Campan (Campania American Dolomites) and is referred to as the northern Italian counterpart rich limestone. Verkarstung natural erosion and provide a wealth [...]

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Cilento - Senerchia

altravita by Monday, 21 July 2008 1 comment

And continue with the tour's tips Cilento. One nice morning gave us a very nice lady at the reception of the Terme del Tufaro recommended a detour after Senerchia to make the course we gladly followed. Who, if not the locals, do you know where the real attractions are? Senerchia the village is only 10 [...]

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Cilento - Teggiano

altravita by Friday, 18 July 2008 No Comments

Even in our base Terme del Tufaro arrived in Contursi Terme, we have almost every day excursions in the area undertaken. Of course, it is more relaxed, with the plane or train anzureisen, but we are still young and I had a great desire to the area by car to explore. And so we have [...]

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Cilento - Paestum

altravita of Wednesday, 9 July 2008 2 comments

One of the main attractions - and entirely rightly - the whole Cilento is certainly Paestum. Paestum speak incidentally really "Paestum" and not something like the Italian 'Pa-estum ", it is a Greek Diphtong, the Times has survived. Interesting here is of course the UNESCO World Heritage Site as recognized ruins. Paestum was - as [...]

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Cilento - Le Terme del Tufaro

altravita of Sunday, 6 July 2008 11 Comments

For all those who have missed me: I'm back from vacation, the coarsest've done and start with a series of reports about my trip to southern Italy. Starting point is to my hotel, the Terme Tufaro in the Alto del Val Sele in the beautiful Cilento / Campania. At irregular sequence of course, I also write about what this [...]

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Orta San Giulio

altravita of Wednesday, 2 April 2008 2 comments

The picturesque village of Orta San Giulio on Lake Orta is an absolute must address if I am friends or relative had visited. Many of the attractions here on Lake Maggiore give me for years and not more, I - like the gardens of Villa Taranto - absolutely never visited. But I think Orta romantic, [...]

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Category: Lago Maggiore travel tips Alpine

Free vacation? But hello!

altravita by Friday, 8 February 2008 15 Comments

We do not believe how many friends you suddenly have, if you look at a cottage on Lake Maggiore zulegt. Perhaps I formed it just me, but the people in Germany are gray suddenly become a much nicer and it also reported many old friends again after years. And even the inhibitions at [...]

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Category: General travel tips Keywords: accommodation

Sailing on Lake Maggiore

altravita of Wednesday, 9 January 2008 2 comments

More than seven years have made me the lights of this Italian Alpensees forever lured to its shores in an area, which is a eloquent friend of mine once "as a place meant that people living here" (a place meant for people to live) , Described. The 66 km long and up to 10 km wide, fjord-like [...]

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Category: Lago Maggiore travel tips Alpine