Welcome to Cape Palinuro

Cape Palinuro, and the surrounding Cilento seaside villages of Pisciotta, Caprioli and Marina di Camerota, Centola, are a beautiful location in the south of Italy with probably the cleanest sea in the whole Mediterranean Sea.

With a 10 km long beach to the south and a 5 km long beach to the north, Cape Palinuro can offer the best of seaside vacation.

The main tourist season occurs between the 15th of July to the 15th of September and the top tourist 'rush-hour' is the month of August.

This is when many Italians and international tourists descend onto Palinuro turning the usually quiet village into a summer holiday center.

In the winter, Palinuro is made up of about 90 families but in the summer season there can be anything from 190.000 to 250.000 thousand tourists in the area.

For the rest of the year the Palinuro area is pretty quiet but the weather is sunny most of the yßear with sea bathing temperatures becoming agreeable in April all through to November.

Most facilities in Palinuro such as hotels, camping sites and restaurants start to open for service at Easter all the way up to end of September.

Some hotels, pensions and restaurants remain open all year.

If you like the bustle and hustle of a seaside resort with discos, bars, restaurants and everything open for service than a good time to go is in the full season (July - August)

And even then it still is not like Rimini in August.

If you enjoy 15 km of empty beaches with a nearly hot seawater temperature - then the best option is from mid September to November.

Spring is also beautiful and it warms up from around the end of March with sea bathing humanly acceptable from April onwards.

Diving, wind surfing, deep sea fishing, country rambling, horse riding, and most other sports are on offer most of the year, not to mention probably the best cousine in the world.