VICO EQUENSE

This ancient area is renowned for its pleasant climate and conveniently central position in relation to Campania's most important venues of tourism and culture. It offers a range of hotels, thermal waters and sea bathing facilities. It also has an abundance of historic and artistic assets dating from the 7th century B.C. to t he present day and extending from sea level right up to the 1400 meters of Monte Faito. Underlining the area's traditional calling for tourism, we find a wide range of hotels equipped with all the latest comforts and with verandas overlooking the splendid panorama of the Gulf of Naples. There are even more places for wining and dining. Some are more intimate and reserved in atmosphere, while others are larger and more modern. But they all offer fine, delicate cuisine based mainly on seafood, together with a variety of local dairy products and fine wines, which already had a fine reputation even in the ancient world.

The territory of Vico Equense is the largest of the Sorrentine peninsula, because includes, apart from the town itself, a series of small villages on a smooth rise full of citrus plantations, grapes and olives: the Casali, arose as the extreme shelter of the inhabitants of these areas, when the Saracen raids had transformed the sea to a continuous source of danger and destruction. History, legend and myth create an original thread that takes us back to a past rich in mystery. The green spaces to grow olives take us back to the cult of Minerva who had made a present of this plant to the recognised sovereigns of Attica; the slopes of Monte Faito evoke wìtches and elves who would choose them as their home; the grottoes, shelter of the Hermits, testify the ancient devotion for the Madonna del Toro, dispenser of miracles.