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MARECHIARO Boat Tour Wind in Stern

Starting from Marechiaro a small fishing village, the boat excursion allows you to reach the submerged park of Gaiola (marine protected area) continuing the navigation respecting the limits we find the remains of a Roman building called the Palazzo degli Spiriti, which some also call the Villa di Virgilio, claiming that the spirit of the poet was manifested from time to time and swearing that he had heard his verses declaim from a mysterious voice. In fact, Virgil really stayed at Pousilypon, in the villa built at the extreme point of Posillipo by Publius Vedio Pollione, a very rich and intimate friend of the emperor Augustus, a grandiose complex, wide and articulated, whose structures spread between Marechiaro and the Cala di Trentaremi. Soon after we find the Gaiola fronted by three small islands, the largest of which is Gaiola. In front of the islet as well as the statue of St. Francis, patron saint of the island, on the rock according to an ancient and deeply rooted tradition we find the ruins that can be seen on the nearby Gaiola beach are still known as the "Virgilio School". Always sailing towards the extreme point of Capo Posillipo, called the horse, the tuff block opens up offering the vision of the grandiose natural amphitheater of Trentaremi, an impressive vision for the width and height of the yellow tuff walls overlooking the sea . Continuing the navigation going back up and down the hill of Posillipo from the sea a little further than the creek of Maisto, on the rocks of southern Italy there is a small tower where there is a source of mineral water, seeing it you realize that you have come to one of Posillipo's richest places in history, you can admire the Baracco villa, red pompean and shortly after immersed in the trees Villa Rosbery, Neapolitan residence of the President of the Republic.

In front of the salt stone rock signals what, for a game of currents, is a stretch of crystalline sea. After the tip of Capo Posillipo we find a delightful corner of Rivafiorita, and for the teledipendents of the soop-opera "a place in the sun" a look attentive to a seventeenth-century fortress, purchased in 1884 by Raffaele Volpicelli, who made it transformed into a villa, preserving however , in keeping with the taste of the period, its appearance as a castle. And just a few meters away we find the magnificent cenito inlet immediately after Villa Gallotti and a series of nineteenth-century villas, including Villa Lauro, formerly Villa Pierce, Villa Emma, above Piazza Salvatore di Giacomo and Santa Maria di Bellavista church, Villa Elisa and Villa d'Abro, villa Roccaromana and, above Piazza S. Luigi villa Pavoncelli and villa of the Prince of Angri. And then, in all its charm, you can admire Palazzo Donn'Anna built by Cosimo Fanzago for Princess Anna Carafa (wife of the Spanish viceroy). Finally returning to Marechiaro we stop to admire the famous Fenestella di Marechiaro, a poem by Salvatore di Giacomo musicated by Tosti, remembered by a plaque in a house near the cliff.